[mythtv-users] Lossless transcoding with commercial cutting increasing the size of the file.

[Patrick Mansfield]

On Fri, May 26, 2006 at 06:09:37AM -0700, drescher0110-mythtv at yahoo.com wrote:
> I have been having a problem with lossless transcoding not working correctly in the
> past but I believe I finally got it setup correctly. In the settings for the High
> Quality transcoder I have the "Lossless encoding" button checked. This does remove
> the commercials and reduce the size of the file only if the show has many
> commercials. If the show does not have so many commercials the size of the file
> becomes actually bigger than the original however the commercials are definitly
> removed. I am using a hauppage 500 and 250 with ivtv as my capture devices. Both
> devices record at about 2.2GB / hour. Here is a part of the directory listing that

Are you still hitting this problem? Any resolution?

I hit a similar problem, I have pchdtv 3000, .19 fixes, tried about two
weeks ago with HD and (I think) SD content.

-- Patrick Mansfield