[mythtvnz] Recording Live Earth for 22 hours

[Jason Haar]

Steven Ellis wrote:
>> simon@sambuca:/share/mythtv/recordings$ ls -lart
>> ...
>> -rw-r--r-- 1 mythtv mythtv 51075300956 2007-07-08 18:00
>> 1006_20070707200000.mpg
>>
>> Currently watching abouth 13 hours and 30 minutes in (Beastie Boys).
>> Had to pause it when I went to bed, and went out this morning :)
>>     
> got it all in widescreen c/o C4 on freeview - 66Gb
>
> -rw-r--r--  1 mythtv mythtv 70117805588 Jul  8 18:07 4921_20070707194700.mpg
>
>   
Hmmm, so PAL is 47GBytes and widescreen is 65GBytes... Is "widescreen"
HD? If so, doesn't that mean there must be massive "compression" (i.e.
loss) for the two to be so relatively similar in size?

Just wondering about all this "HD" stuff...

Jason