[mythtv-users] Storage space and PVR-250

[Josh Burks]

On 4/13/05, Derek Tattersall <tatters at newsguy.com> wrote:
> I just set up a mythtv box using a pvr-250 as the capture card. I
> scheduled a recording of a 1/2 hour tv show, and it worked well. When I
> played back the recording it looked great. So far so good. However that
> 1/2 hour recording takes up 13gb on my disk. I would like to find a more
> efficient way to store recordings even if I have to sacrifice some
> quality.
> 

Sounds like you didn't set up your tuner as a PVR-X50 in mythtvsetup.
The default settings will record in RTJPEG (since the default is a
frame-grabber), which equals ~13GB/Hr.

Josh