[mythtv-users] The Bigger... Disk contest, Fall 2007 edition

[Kevin Hulse]

On Wed, Oct 17, 2007 at 06:12:41PM -0400, Jay R. Ashworth wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 17, 2007 at 05:19:47PM -0400, Steven Adeff wrote:
> > Of course I live with 4 other people (+ our friends and significant
> > others...), what *your* excuse for having "way too much storage"? =D
> 
> "MPEG2 doesn't compress very well, and almost no one's making MPEG4
> hardware tuners."

	Clean MPEG2 compresses VERY well. Splitting up things like
closed captions and subtitles and extra audio tracks is a much 
bigger bother than "MPEG2 doesn't compress very well".

	Effective MPEG2 compression of movies (as opposed to TV whether
it's recorded or off of DVDs) does take a heap big amount of cpu time.
The resulting files take more brute force to decode too.

	But I wouldn't exactly say that MPEG2 doesn't compress well.