[mythtv-users] Encoding to h264 to save space

[Brian Wood]

Brad DerManouelian wrote:

>>
>> What does it look like at that level of compression? I'd think that
>> 150MB/hour would look like crap (technical term), even on an iPod.
>>
>> beww
> 
> Agreed. I do 1GB/hour for my iPod recordings and they're beautiful on  
> my iPod and iPhone. Anything less and I can't stand watching it.

Typical MPEG2 SD (a PVR at DVD resolution) is 2.2GB/hr. I'd thought that 
at best going to h264 would cut that in half, any more and you are 
losing significant quality.

Maybe the OP meant 1.5GB/hr ???

beww