[mythtv-users] Might seem like a dumb question but have to ask

[Brent Bolin]

On Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 10:09 AM, Greg Oliver <oliver.greg at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 10:02 AM, Brent Bolin <brent.bolin at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 9:59 AM, Brent Bolin <brent.bolin at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> On Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 9:07 AM, Eloy Paris <peloy at chapus.net> wrote:
>>>> On Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 09:01:41AM -0600, Brent Bolin wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Do OTA(Live TV recordings) and Videos use the same playback settings
>>>>>
>>>>> Example:
>>>>>
>>>>> Setup, TV settings, Playback
>>>>>
>>>>> slim
>>>>> high qualtity
>>>>> vdpu
>>>>> etc...
>>>>
>>>> When the internal player is used for videos yes, the same playback
>>>> settings are used.
>>>>
>>>> Cheers,
>>>>
>>>> Eloy Paris.-
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>>>
>>> Thanks for your quick reply.
>>>
>>> I have (3) ZOTAC IONITX-A-U Atom N330 1.6GHz Dual-Core Mini ITX Intel
>>> Motherboard front ends.
>>>
>>> The best playback for OTA HD recordings I use is "High Quality"(no
>>> vdpau).  I have tried the stock vdpau(slim, normal, high quality) with
>>> bad results.  Also tried some custom playbacks with the same result.
>>>
>>> Jerky, slow motion, pixelation etc...
>>>
>>> The CPU runs about 30% usage with this.  The playback is very good.
>>>
>>> I have just noticed when playing ripped DVD's it works fine.  Even
>>> using vdpau high quality.  CPU usage goes down to less then 5%.
>>>
>>> So I'm beginning to think something else isn't configured correct for
>>> recording OTA HD.
>>>
>>> Currently have all the default settings -
>>> Recording profile
>>> Transcoder autodetect
>>> Recording group default
>>> Storage group default
>>> Playback group default
>>>
>>> And I have commercial flagging set.
>>>
>>> The OTA recordings are very large.
>>>
>>> Here is the file size of the David Letterman show -
>>>
>>> 7808495588
>>>
>>> Here is the size of Casino Royale -
>>>
>>> 1696577671 and file type  MPEG v4 system, version 2 ripped with
>>> Handbrake(high profile)
>>>
>>> Is there something I should change when scheduling OTA recordings?
>>>
>>> Ubuntu 9.10
>>> Myth .22
>>> PCHD 5500
>>> Dvico FusionHDTV7
>>>
>>> Any input would be appreciated.
>>>
>>
>> Also using the internal player for all.
>
> US OTA still uses mpeg-2 compression, so the file sizes are still
> going to be rather large.  Your only option is to transcode them after
> recording to shrink them..
>
> -Greg
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I don't care about the file sizes.  I only included it for info.  Have
a lot of drive space.