[mythtv-users] Semi-OT anyone recording New York OTA, and NBC 4.1

[Tom Dexter]

I was wondering if anyone here who records New York OTA has noticed
the same things I've noticed with NBC 4.1 since the recent move to a
new frequency, and apparently from the Empire State building antenna
to 1 WTC:

Until this change I've never seen OTA MPEG-TS recordings less than
about 3 GB / hour for 720p, and for 1081i generally well over 6 GB /
hour. The latter was always the case with the 4.1 1080i recordings,
but since that move my recordings of 4.1 are literally 1/2 the size
they were. Here are records of two 1/2 hour episodes of the same show,
the first before the move and the second after:

3.3G    1041_20180330013000.ts
1.6G    1703_20180526000000.ts

That's awful. According to mplayer -identify they're both supposedly
using a video bitrate of 24000000, but I think that's wildly
inaccurate with MPEG-TS streams.

Just wondered if anyone else noticed that. Totally sucks. I credit the
insanity of allowing Comcast to buy one of the only free OTA stations.
Don't even get me started.

The reception was also almost unusable for me after the move. I'm in
central NJ. Testing with my hdhomerun_config utility, the signal
strength and signal to noise wasn't too bad, but the seq (signal error
quality) was constantly going from 100 to 0. I turned my antenna
slightly more to the north and lately at least this has been
acceptable. But yea...that recording size is is not a good sign for
sure.

Tom