[mythtv-users] Question on file size for SD digital recordings

[Aaron Klein]

Thanks.  Does that bitrate of 1GB per hour seem correct for a SD
digital broadcast?  In reading other posts about digital that just
seemed low to me.  Maybe my local comcast office is highly compressing
the bitstream.  I get frequent digital reception artifacts on these
captures but I felt that was due to having to sue beta drivers.

On Tue, Oct 21, 2008 at 3:07 PM, Robin Hill <myth at robinhill.me.uk> wrote:
> On Tue Oct 21, 2008 at 02:58:01PM -0400, Aaron Klein wrote:
>
>> I have recorded a few SD digital shows and they seem to capture at a
>> rate of 1GB per hour where as I am currently grabbing mpeg2 analog
>> shows at double that rate.  Right now I don't see a way of changing
>> the encode rate for the digital captures.  Is this indeed the case or
>> maybe im missing something from my setup.
>>
> No, there's no way to change the setting for digital captures.  There's
> no encoding being done for these (the data's just dumped directly to
> disk as it's received) so there's no physical way to increase the
> bitrate (other than by injecting noise).
>
> Cheers,
>    Robin
>
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