[mythtv-users] List of recordings by disc drive - Solved - now storage strategies

[Hika van den Hoven]

Hoi Stephen,

Tuesday, February 10, 2015, 4:23:25 AM, you wrote:

> On Mon, 09 Feb 2015 20:58:23 -0500, you wrote:

>>On 02/09/2015 04:47 PM, Karl Newman wrote:
>>
>>>
>>>
>>> The general sense on this list is that it's cheaper to add
>>> storage than to spend the electricity to transcode in order to
>>> save space. Obviously you already have a number of disks so I'm
>>> guessing you have physical space reasons for wanting to
>>> transcode instead of adding drives.
>>>
>>
>>>
>>>
>>> No, mythlink.pl <http://mythlink.pl> doesn't rename files; it
>>> creates symbolic links with meaningful names which point to the
>>> original files. You can completely customize how the files are
>>> named, but it doesn't look like you can group it by disk/path
>>> location or by storage group.
>>>
>>> Karl
>>
>>
>>MythLink:  Ah, excellent.
>>
>>
>>More storage:  My Back End motherboard (2011) has 6 SATA ports 
>>available.  Four 1.8 TB discs, one DVD, one system/database 
>>disc.  I could buy higher-capacity drives or new system.  I like 
>>having four spindles, as I almost never record more than four 
>>shows at once.
>>
>>If I increase Back End storage, I have to do something about my 
>>rsync back-up PC.  It has a 2008 motherboard with three 4 TB 
>>discs and a system disc.  Two of the 4 TB drives are dedicated 
>>for MythTV back-up, the remaining 4 TB drive backs up all the 
>>rest of the systems here.
>>
>>Conversely, if I transcode, unless it is PBS or TCM, I usually 
>>have a new file that is 2/3 the size of the original.  Even 
>>smaller if I get rid of program portions I don't want, or decide 
>>not to keep the recording.
>>
>>My present 8 TB system, with recordings since 2011, has 6.2 TB 
>>used, 23% free.  I'm almost 70 years old.  With transcoding, I 
>>might die before running out of space on the existing system.
>>
>>John Finlay has piqued my interest about transcoding to h264...
>>
>>
>>Mike

> Transcoding is a lot of work.  When TV here was MPEG2 recordings, I
> tried doing it.  But you needed to cut the ads out and trim the excess
> at each end of the recording, and there was no way to automate that so
> I had to spend time manually editing files.  It was far too time
> consuming, even if I automated the actual transcoding.  I found it
> much easier just to add more storage.

Ah, but it's not waisted time, because with the adds gone, watching
gives so much more quality watching!

> Two new 6 Tbyte drives, one for the MythTV box and one for the backup
> box, is not that expensive.
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