On shows that I don't really care that much about the quality of, I compress down to 500MB an hour. It's not too bad usually, a little block sometimes, but good overall. Stuff that I like to keep or want higher quality, I just dump the mpeg from my card to disk (2GB/hr).
Using about 700GB I've got something like 900 hours recorded. Robert > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > On Behalf Of Adam H. Peterson > Sent: Wednesday, February 08, 2006 1:29 PM > To: BYU Unix Users Group > Subject: Re: [uug] UUG MythTV Meeting Coming Up! > > Brian Phillips wrote: > > > > How much space would I need to record 4 months of tv and then try and > cram > > that into a 3 week break? > > It uses about 2.17GB per hour of recording, at least on my box. (If you > have a HD tuner, I expect it might take more.) So if you plan on > watching 80 hours a week for those three weeks, that would be about > 520GB of storage for programs. > > -------------------- > BYU Unix Users Group > http://uug.byu.edu/ > > The opinions expressed in this message are the responsibility of their > author. They are not endorsed by BYU, the BYU CS Department or BYU-UUG. > ___________________________________________________________________ > List Info: http://uug.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/uug-list -------------------- BYU Unix Users Group http://uug.byu.edu/ The opinions expressed in this message are the responsibility of their author. They are not endorsed by BYU, the BYU CS Department or BYU-UUG. ___________________________________________________________________ List Info: http://uug.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/uug-list
