[mythtv-users] Encoding to h264 to save space

[Brad DerManouelian]

On Feb 18, 2008, at 7:16 PM, Ronald Frazier wrote:

>> 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.
>
> Are you serious? 1GB/hr for an ipod? Thats only about half the size of
> what I use for MPEG-2 SD resolution. If you are only encoding to
> MPEG-2, I'd expect about 1/4 of the size. If you are doing h264, I'd
> expect even smaller.

Oh, that's wrong. I checked the size of a movie that I thought was an  
hour show. I go with 200MB/hour and it looks great.