[mythtv-users] Live TV recording file size double size of DVBViewer on Windows 7?

[Raymond Wagner]

On 3/11/2012 16:40, David Crawford wrote:
> I have been using both MythTV in Linux and DVBViewer on windows and 
> ive noticed that recordings made in Myth are roughly double the size 
> as those made in DVBViewer. Why is that?

DVBViewer must be transcoding the recording.  Either that, or you've got 
a ton of data coming in over MHEG, that DVBViewer is discarding but 
MythTV is storing for later use.