[mythtv-users] new PC build that's MythTV compatible

[David Watkins]

On Thu, 3 Dec 2020 at 16:31, David Watkins <watkinshome at gmail.com> wrote:

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> On Thu, 3 Dec 2020 at 14:33, Stephen Worthington <stephen_agent at jsw.gen.nz>
> wrote:
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>> On Thu, 3 Dec 2020 12:27:31 +0000, you wrote:
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>> >> What are your HD recording filesizes, in GB/hour?
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>> >In the UK I generally see 1.3GB to 2GB/hour
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>> >SD is normally around 750MB/hour
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>> >It can vary significantly though depending on the channel and programme.
>> >Should be a reasonable indication of the compression.
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>> If that is H.265 it might be ok, but if it is H.264 then it is not
>> what I would call HD.  Here in New Zealand our DVB-T HD programmes
>> (H.264) are over 3 Gibytes per hour.  But when they first started,
>> when there were fewer channels, they were 4.5-5.5 Gibytes per hour.
>> And recently the only satellite service (Sky TV NZ) has converted all
>> their transponders from DVB-S to DVB-S2 and a number of their channels
>> are now around 4 Gibytes per hour.
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> That's interesting. What I said is typical of what I'm getting though here
> in the UK.
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> I wonder if I should be getting 1080?
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> My TV is 42" 1080. So not so big, and my old eyes are fairly happy with
> the HD quality I'm getting.  The only thing I find poor is large black
> areas, which can be very blocky.
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> I can feel a bit of research coming on.
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> D
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>From the BBC Website

To be classed as "true" high definition, we encode in at least 1280x720
> resolution or 720p. We use h.264 with a bitrate of 3.2Mbps (going up to
> 5Mbps for best quality, should your connection allow) and 128kbps audio.
> This means that streaming programmes in HD quality will put demands on your
> network connection




By my calculation 3.2Mbps = 1.44 GBytes/hour.  So I'm not losing anything.
That's what they're sending me.

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