[mythtv-users] Encoding to h264 to save space

[David Brodbeck]

On Feb 20, 2008, at 1:56 AM, Phill Edwards wrote:
> Also, one of the posters mentioned they were getting down to 400MB per
> 30 mins. Using the in-built transcoder (Autodetect from MPEG2 -->
> MPEG4) I'm getting approx 550MB per 30 minutes, so it doesn't sound
> like an enormous saving to go to all this trouble to get h264 - are
> there other benefits of this aside from the space savings?

For stuff I really care about I like to use an external two-pass  
transcoder.  I feel the quality is a little better than using the  
built-in one-pass transcoder, but at the cost of less convenience.