[mythtv-users] Best settings for transcoding HD content to save space?

[Gary Buhrmaster]

On Tue, May 13, 2014 at 7:17 PM, Ronald Frazier <ron at ronfrazier.net> wrote:
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> Actually, a few cents less than that. You have to count the electricity cost
> of transcoding vs idle.

Power savings gets tricky, not only because of differing transcoder
power utilization, and local electricity rates (if you are not paying
for the power in the basement of your parents house, did it get
used?), but the cost of the spinning of the various numbers and
sizes of rust both now, and in the future.  All said, transcoding is
not generally cost justified (but the same can often be said of the
hobby that is MythTV).  Transcoding can, however, be justified by
device requirements (since so few mobile devices (in particular)
have h/w enabled/licensed mpeg2 support).  As Michael said.