<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, May 12, 2014 at 7:50 PM, Raymond Wagner <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:raymond@wagnerrp.com" target="_blank">raymond@wagnerrp.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div class="">On 5/12/2014 6:52 PM, Ben Kamen wrote:<br>
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I've been looking at my drive space wondering if I can trim down<br>
per/show usage by good transcoding settings.<br>
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So I thought I'd solicit the group to see how they have their<br>
transcoders set..<br>
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I do have a 42" LCD -- so I'd like to be able to watch the HD stuff back<br>
on that without cringing.<br>
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(So just the high quality settings and what program is your myth set to<br>
use?)<br>
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You're best off just performing lossless cutting and being done with it. Disk space is cheap. Transcoding takes time. If you absolutely must transcode, you do not want to use the internal transcoder.<br></blockquote>
</div><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">I'd like to interrupt this regularly scheduled discussion of transcoding vs not, cutting vs not and just give the devs a huge shout-out for giving us a software that gives us these choices. If me & the missus want to keep one two minute segment of a Dr. Oz show, snip, boom, we're done. Compare that to my old PVR where you had to keep the whole show.<br>
<br></div><div class="gmail_extra">I could never go back to that. So thanks to the MythTV community!<br></div></div>