[mythtv-users] HD space

[Chris Pinkham]

I'm sure others will reply with the same info, but I think he meant
"Hard Drive" when he said HD.

Low ranges are for lower resolution and Kbits/second.
Plan on 1-2 Gigs per hour using MPEG4 software encoding.  If you opt
for a hardware pvr-250 or pvr-350 card, plan for about 2-4 Gigs per
hour.

I've been recording 352x480 resolution at around 900 Megabytes per
hour and have a lower-resolution profile setup for some of my wife's
daily shows at 320x320 and they're only using about 650 Megabytes per
hour.  This is with software encoding.

My pvr-250 recordings are setup to use about 2 Gigs per hour I believe.

> HD is 9GB an hour min, 18GB max (Depending on who's broadcasting and in
> what spec).  You can always re-encode the video and audio and get a 4GB
> an hour stream that's still good for audio and video.
> 
> --Brandon
> 
> On Sun, Aug 24, 2003 at 07:41:17PM -0500, Jonathan Huizingh wrote:
> > I am probably going to build a mythTV box sometime soon, and I am just
> > wondering how much disk space is enough?  Since I don't know what format
> > I will be storing video in yet, I think answers in terms of hours of
> > video would be more helpful.  Also, explain about how much you record
> > per day/week/etc...
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > Jonathan Huizingh
> > 
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Chris