<br>I finally got around to trying a few scripts for transcoding down the size of my recordings. I tried converting to mpeg4 first but at about 250 bitrate, the videos became very blocky and I haven't achieved the 90% filesize reduction I was shooting for. Last night I realized that mythtv can play h264, just not AAC. So I converted a few recordings to h264 with mp3 audio and was able to bring the size of an hour recording from 1.5 Gig to 150 megabytes. On a 32 inch crt tv watching about 6 feet away, the resulting video is very watchable. There is some graphical distortion a few seconds after forwarding or rewinding. Apart from transcoding, the seek table needed to be rebuilt and the database record for the filesize needs to be updated. I got this idea from a cleanvideo.py script from <a href="http://computing.dwighthubbard.info/">http://computing.dwighthubbard.info/</a>. I integrated some ideas from the cleanvideo script with the script I use for transcoding videos for the ipod touch changing the audio codec to mp3. Hopefully, these videos would still work in the ipod touch and mythweb. <br>
I am now in the process of encoding entire batches of shows on a per title basis using another 3 Ghz P4 machine. Thanks to all who replied to this thread.<br><br>Chris<br>