[OT] Re: [mythtv-users] Recording Bitrates fpr PVR 350

2005-12-23 Thread Michael T. Dean
Scott Alfter wrote: Michael T. Dean wrote: Scott Alfter wrote: Disk space is cheap. I just record everything at 6 Mbps and call it a day. With ~340 GB (real gigabytes, not "salesman's gigabytes") across three drives, I've never run out of space. 1 gigabyte = 1GB = 1,000,000,000 byt

Re: [mythtv-users] Recording Bitrates fpr PVR 350

2005-12-23 Thread Michael T. Dean
Philip Shead wrote: Michael T. Dean wrote: Scott Alfter wrote: Disk space is cheap. I just record everything at 6 Mbps and call it a day. With ~340 GB (real gigabytes, not "salesman's gigabytes") across three drives, I've never run out of space. 1 gigabyte = 1GB = 1,000,000,000 bytes 1

Re: [mythtv-users] Recording Bitrates fpr PVR 350

2005-12-23 Thread Scott Alfter
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Michael T. Dean wrote: > Scott Alfter wrote: >> Disk space is cheap. I just record everything at 6 Mbps and call it a day. >> With ~340 GB (real gigabytes, not "salesman's gigabytes") across three >> drives, I've never run out of space. >> > 1 gigaby

Re: [mythtv-users] Recording Bitrates fpr PVR 350

2005-12-23 Thread Philip Shead
Michael T. Dean wrote: Scott Alfter wrote: Disk space is cheap. I just record everything at 6 Mbps and call it a day. With ~340 GB (real gigabytes, not "salesman's gigabytes") across three drives, I've never run out of space. 1 gigabyte = 1GB = 1,000,000,000 bytes 1 gibibyte = 1GiB = 1,07

Re: [mythtv-users] Recording Bitrates fpr PVR 350

2005-12-22 Thread Matt Mossholder
On Thu, 2005-12-22 at 12:54 -0500, Michael T. Dean wrote: Matt Mossholder wrote: > Just because one standards group decided that a group of people had > misused their standard after 20/30/40? years, and decided people > should change doesn't mean that we, as users have to listen. > > Stand

Re: [mythtv-users] Recording Bitrates fpr PVR 350

2005-12-22 Thread Michael T. Dean
Matt Mossholder wrote: Just because one standards group decided that a group of people had misused their standard after 20/30/40? years, and decided people should change doesn't mean that we, as users have to listen. Standards are only as good as peoples decisions to use them. Long live 1 gi

Re: [mythtv-users] Recording Bitrates fpr PVR 350

2005-12-22 Thread Matt Mossholder
Just because one standards group decided that a group of people had misused their standard after 20/30/40? years, and decided people should change doesn't mean that we, as users have to listen. Standards are only as good as peoples decisions to use them. Long live 1 gigabyte = 8 * 2^30 bits!

Re: [mythtv-users] Recording Bitrates fpr PVR 350

2005-12-22 Thread Michael T. Dean
Scott Alfter wrote: Christian Borchmann wrote: what are usefull settings for recording dayli episodes of cartoon with a pvr-350? u choose a bitrate form 2500-3500. Disk space is cheap. I just record everything at 6 Mbps and call it a day. With ~340 GB (real gigabytes, not "salesman's

Re: [mythtv-users] Recording Bitrates fpr PVR 350

2005-12-21 Thread Scott Alfter
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Christian Borchmann wrote: > what are usefull settings for recording dayli episodes of cartoon with a > pvr-350? > > u choose a bitrate form 2500-3500. Disk space is cheap. I just record everything at 6 Mbps and call it a day. With ~340 GB (real gig

RE: [mythtv-users] Recording Bitrates fpr PVR 350

2005-12-21 Thread William
> Hallo, > > what are usefull settings for recording dayli episodes of > cartoon with a > pvr-350? > > u choose a bitrate form 2500-3500. > > good or bad idea? Personally I would record at a bit higher rate (5000-6000) and then transcode them much smaller and enjoy the quality of the recordin

Re: [mythtv-users] Recording Bitrates fpr PVR 350

2005-12-21 Thread Michael T. Dean
Christian Borchmann wrote: what are usefull settings for recording dayli episodes of cartoon with a pvr-350? u choose a bitrate form 2500-3500. good or bad idea? IMHO, if it looks good to you, it's good. Mike ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-