[mythtv-users] Transcoding results in bigger files

Bill Chmura Bill at Explosivo.com
Sun Feb 22 16:42:07 EST 2004


This discussion is helping me too, as I have had the same issue...

Looking forward to the advice...


On Sunday 22 February 2004 04:15 pm, Klaasjan Tukker wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Can you tell me what "advisable" bitrates are for both the PVR 350 and the
> MPEG4 encoding?
>
> Klaasjan
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: mythtv-users-bounces at mythtv.org [mailto:mythtv-users-
> > bounces at mythtv.org] On Behalf Of Michael McConnell
> > Sent: zondag 22 februari 2004 19:52
> > To: Discussion about mythtv
> > Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] Transcoding results in bigger files
> >
> > Exactly,
> >
> >     It all depends on bitrates... If you setup transcoding correctly, you
> > will save on storage space. Spend some time looking at the 350's bitrate,
> > and the MPEG4 transcoding bit rates.
> >
> > Mike
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "J. Donavan Stanley" <jdonavan at jdonavan.net>
> > To: "Discussion about mythtv" <mythtv-users at mythtv.org>
> > Sent: Sunday, February 22, 2004 10:29 AM
> > Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] Transcoding results in bigger files
> >
> > > Klaasjan Tukker wrote:
> > > >Hi,
> > > >
> > > >I thought that transcoding raw PVR350 files into MPEG4 would result in
> > > >smaller files... But in my tests, the files became about to 3 to 4
> >
> > times
> > the
> >
> > > >original size..
> > >
> > > What bitrate are you encoding from your PVR350 at?
> >
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