[mythtv-users] How small can I get my captures?

[martin]

On June 13, 2003 2:28, John Klimek wrote:
> I'm running off of very limited space and I was wondering how small I could
> get my captures.  Typically VCD's (compressed in MPEG1 or MPEG2) are only
> 700-800mb and have over an hours worth of audio/video.
>
> MythTV (using RTjpeg [I think thats what its called]) creates HUGE files. 
> A 30 minute show took up nearly 1.5 GB of space.  Thats insane.
>
> So, two questions really:
>
> 1)  Does MythTV have any other codecs to compress the size?  What else can
> I do to shrink the file sizes?
>
> 2)  I tried using a Samba-mounted drive to save a capture.  The samba drive
> had TONS of room but after about 30 minutes my mythbackend server crashed
> out saying something about exceeding the maximum file size.

> Jeremy Oddo (INCREDIBLY helpful guy) said that Samba had a limit to file
> transfers.
>
> Is there any other way to store these files over a network drive?  or can I
> compress my files more?
>
> Thanks.

There is a patch to take the  smbfs 2 gig limit up to 4 gigs and it is 
available here.
http://www.ps.uni-sb.de/~errror/smbfs-lfs.html
I havn't tried it out yet myself.

Martin