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<DIV><SPAN class=767084500-29112003><FONT face=Arial size=2>Whenever I record a
half-hour program using the default settings, it comes out to around 1.1GB
on-disk. If I go through, and set the cutpoints in the commercials, and
transcode it, the same program balloons to 8 times its normal size.
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<DIV><SPAN class=767084500-29112003><FONT face=Arial
size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=767084500-29112003><FONT face=Arial size=2>The video was
originally capped using a Hauppuage PVR-250 on default
settings. </FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=767084500-29112003><FONT face=Arial
size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=767084500-29112003><FONT face=Arial size=2>Here are my current
codecparams:</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=767084500-29112003><FONT face=Arial size=2>mysql> select *
from codecparams;<BR>+---------+--------------------------+-----------+<BR>|
profile |
name
| value
|<BR>+---------+--------------------------+-----------+<BR>|
22 |
autotranscode
| 0
|<BR>| 22 |
width
| 480 |<BR>|
22 |
height
| 480 |<BR>|
22 |
rtjpegquality
| 170 |<BR>|
22 | rtjpeglumafilter |
0
|<BR>| 22 |
rtjpegchromafilter |
0
|<BR>| 22 |
mpeg4bitrate
| 2200 |<BR>| 22 |
mpeg4maxquality |
2
|<BR>| 22 |
mpeg4minquality |
15
|<BR>| 22 |
mpeg4qualdiff
| 3
|<BR>| 22 |
mpeg4scalebitrate |
1
|<BR>| 22 |
mpeg4optionvhq |
0
|<BR>| 22 |
mpeg4option4mv |
0
|<BR>| 22 |
hardwaremjpegquality |
100 |<BR>| 22
| hardwaremjpeghdecimation | 4
|<BR>| 22 | hardwaremjpegvdecimation |
4
|<BR>| 22 |
mpeg2streamtype | MPEG-2
PS |<BR>| 22 |
mpeg2aspectratio |
4:3 |<BR>| 22
|
mpeg2bitrate
| 4500 |<BR>| 22 |
mpeg2maxbitrate |
6000 |<BR>| 22 |
samplerate
| 32000 |<BR>| 22 |
mp3quality
| 7
|<BR>| 22 |
mpeg2audtype
| Layer II |<BR>| 22 |
mpeg2audbitratel1 |
448 |<BR>| 22
| mpeg2audbitratel2 |
384 |<BR>| 22
| mpeg2audvolume |
90
|<BR>+---------+--------------------------+-----------+</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=767084500-29112003><FONT face=Arial
size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=767084500-29112003><FONT face=Arial
size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>mysql> select * from recordingprofiles where id
= 22;<BR>+----+-------+------------+------------+--------------+<BR>| id |
name | videocodec | audiocodec | profilegroup
|<BR>+----+-------+------------+------------+--------------+<BR>| 22 | MPEG2 |
RTjpeg | MP3
| 6
|<BR>+----+-------+------------+------------+--------------+<BR></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=627125600-29112003><FONT face=Arial size=2>What settings would
I need to change/match/check to ensure that I'm not transcoding into higher
settings that would increase diskspace use?</FONT></SPAN></DIV></BODY></HTML>