<div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Mar 14, 2010 at 9:17 PM, Matt Emmott <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:memmott@gmail.com">memmott@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
My primary tuner on my system is an HD-PVR hooked to a Scientific<br>
Atlanta HD cable box (SA4250HDC, I think) via component cable. 90% of<br>
my recordings are through this tuner; the other 10% are through my<br>
HDHomeRun. Certain channels, like Comedy Central in this example,<br>
don't broadcast in HD in my area, so I record the SD stream. The<br>
problem is, these recordings are the same size as my 1080i recordings<br>
- A half hour Daily Show episode, for example, is about 2.7GB. All<br>
attempts to transcode thus far have failed, and from what I can tell<br>
from searching the mailing list archives, this is the norm.<br>
<br>
Is there anything I can do to shrink these files, either during the<br>
recording or after the fact? In addition to shrinking the files for<br>
general sanity, I'd love to get mythexport working so I could export<br>
some shows to my iPod but if transcoding is a no-no at this time, I<br>
guess that functionality would not work at this time, correct? Is<br>
anybody else watching HD-PVR recordings on their iProducts?<br>
_______________________________________________<br clear="all"></blockquote></div><br>what if you used the s-video in for non-hd? I dont have the hd pvr but that would atleast only record the 4x3 video and not the black bars. You could turn the quality down for SD <br>
as well.<br><br>-- <br>Mitchell<br>