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

[John P DeVale]

Isaac Richards wrote:

>On Saturday 14 June 2003 01:04 pm, Ray Olszewski wrote:
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>>At 11:42 AM 6/14/2003 -0500, John P DeVale wrote:
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>>>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.
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>>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.
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>Yup.  No 'Default' profile would have made it fall back to rtjpeg at the 
>default settings for recordings.
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>Isaac
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Ok then, that wraps it up - thanks to all for the input.  I was under 
the misconception that the default was still the default, even if it 
didn't show up in the list.

Thanks,

John