[mythtv-users] Increased recording size

Will Dormann wd at pobox.com
Tue Oct 28 13:22:54 EST 2003


At 12:08 PM 10/28/2003 -0600, you wrote:
>I've always kept the default pvr-250 settings, and going from .11 to .12
>has decreased my recording sizes from 3.7GB/hour to 2.2GB/hour.
>Considering I can't tell the difference in quality it's a good thing for
>me, but I would still like to know what has changed.  Anyone?


Starting with 0.12 (or a CVS version shortly before, probably), MythTV
supports setting the bitrate for the PVR-x50 cards.   The default Mythtv
bitrate is 4500.   I think the IVTV default bitrate is 8000



-WD


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