[mythtv-users] Hauppauge 2250 settings

[Robert McNamara]

On Sat, Jan 2, 2010 at 9:25 PM, Eppo Eppleston <eppo120 at gmail.com> wrote:
> is there a way to change the bitrate of the recordings of the Hauppague 2250
> card.
> 30 minute recordings are 3gigs in size.

No.  Digital recordings are compressed at the broadcaster.  the only
way you can affect the size of the recordings is to transcode after
the fact.

> i have an HDPVR and that one records
> 30 min hd recordings in about 860mb.
> thanks

Youch, that's a punishingly low bitrate to set your HD-PVR... way too
low for my personal tastes, but to each their own, I suppose.

Robert