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

[Isaac Richards]

On Saturday 14 June 2003 01:04 pm, Ray Olszewski wrote:
> At 11:42 AM 6/14/2003 -0500, John P DeVale wrote:
> >Well, I am certain that the files are too big -- beyond that, everything
> >is up for grabs.  However, I went through all the configurations and
> >verified that the settings were what they should be.  I made no changes to
> >any of the settings, but the profiles list now shows LiveTV, Default,
> >Transcode where previously it showed LiveTV, Movies, Transcode.  But
> >everything is set identically, except LiveTV is set to 320x480 whereas
> >everything else is set to 480x480.  Suddenly, the files that are generated
> >are the size I would expect (~1gb/hour).  The codec settings were all
> >2200, scale bitrate, quality max2, min 15, audio mp3 q7.  It doesn't seem
> >logical or likely to think it is a causal relationship, but the only
> >difference between the setup is the things listed in the recording
> >profiles list.  It is possible that the values were somehow corrupt and
> >just going through them somehow reset things to right.  I don't know.
>
> Well ... if you previously did not have a default profile, I don't know how
> Myth would have decided to do time captures. No doubt Isaac does, and maybe
> he will comment. But I'd think that this was the source of your problem.

Yup.  No 'Default' profile would have made it fall back to rtjpeg at the 
default settings for recordings.

Isaac