[mythtv-users] "Normal" storage requirements?

[Adam Hirsch]

Roby Adams (hypykesub at bellsouth.net) wrote:

> MPEG2 @ 12Mbit @720x480 will take A LOT more space that low res DivX or
> nu(i)pple.

I'm still in the process of getting my machine set up, so forgive the
naivete -- given the number of PVR-250 cards out there recording to larger
MPEG2 files, would there be any benefit to a background (and severely
niced, presumably) task to go through and transcode the MPEG2 shows into
something smaller?

Although once one starts re-encoding shows using one's main CPU, the entire
point of having the PVR-250 card vanishes.  Given how cheap storage is
these days anyhow, I suppose there wouldn't be much of a point... unless
one then wants to burn shows off to CDs, at which point smaller becomes
better again.

Adam

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