[mythtv-users] Biggest Mythtv setup

[Mike Perkins]

MarcT wrote:
>   Odd, 2 hours here would be about 4.4G, why is yours so bloated?
> 
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> All recordings vary.
> For example:
> A 1 hour SD recording made on my PVR-500 is about 2.2G (Analog Capture).
> This would be on par with your 2 hour recording.
> A 1 hour SD recording made by my HD-5000 is about 900 MB (Digital Capture).
> A 1 hour HD recording made on my HD-5000 varies from about 3G (SD show on a
> HD channel, black bars on the sides) to about 5G (720p HD recording) to
> about 8G (1080p HD recording). The 720p HD capture would be on par with the
> other party's 10G recording.
> 
Bitrates. Although I only record SD over here in the UK, I normally get 2.0-2.2 
Gb/hour from recording off Freeview (YMMV). However, sometimes when a feature 
film is shown the file sizes can vary enormously from this nominal rate. It all 
depends what bitrate the film was originally encoded with, I suspect. Some are 
much smaller, but don't appear to be of less quality. A few are /much/ bigger 
(like double or more), but don't appear to be of much greater quality.

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Mike Perkins