[mythtv-users] Live TV recording file size double size of DVBViewer on Windows 7?

[Nick Rout]

On Mon, Mar 12, 2012 at 9:55 AM, David Crawford
<davidcrawford83 at gmail.com> wrote:
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> On 11 March 2012 20:46, Raymond Wagner <raymond at wagnerrp.com> wrote:
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>> On 3/11/2012 16:40, David Crawford wrote:
>> > I have been using both MythTV in Linux and DVBViewer on windows and
>> > ive noticed that recordings made in Myth are roughly double the size
>> > as those made in DVBViewer. Why is that?
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>> DVBViewer must be transcoding the recording.  Either that, or you've got
>> a ton of data coming in over MHEG, that DVBViewer is discarding but
>> MythTV is storing for later use.
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> DVBViewer is recording files as .ts, doesn't that mean nothing should be
> transcoded?
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> Also, quite often with Myth data isn't being captured such as Teletext or
> DVB subtitles. This is not the case in DVBViewer it will capture both
> everytime and you can select if you want to record those streams or not.
> What are the possible reasons why Myth isnt capturing these? (apart from the
> fact that the streams are not being carried on the program/channel).

Instead of speculating why don't you run some files through mediainfo
or similar and see where the differences lie.