[mythtvnz] Recording Live Earth for 22 hours

[Nick Rout]

Steven Ellis wrote:
> Jason Haar wrote:
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>> Steven Ellis wrote:
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>>>> 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 :)
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>>> 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
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>> 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?
>>
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> It all depends on bitrates.
>
> At the moment the widescreen anamorphic DVB-S signal from C4 is around
> 6Mbit which equals around 3Gb/hr
>
> For a normal Hauppauge PVR card people would use between 3 and 6 Mbit,
> and the quality wouldn't be close to that of the digital signal.
>   

Not to mention the fact that the PVR signal has been though a
digital-analogue conversion and back again.

The short answer is, no the freeview signal is not HD, and probably
won't be off satellite, but may be so off terrestial (which as a person
who cannot get any terrestial TV pisses me right off!)