On Wed, Feb 08, 2006 at 01:42:57PM -0700, Robert LeBlanc wrote: > 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. >
Note that you can configure MythTV to tell your card what quality to record at. Especially for shows you don't care much about, you might consider recording directly at a lower mpeg quality setting to save processing. -- Andrew McNabb http://www.mcnabbs.org/andrew/ PGP Fingerprint: 8A17 B57C 6879 1863 DE55 8012 AB4D 6098 8826 6868
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