[mythtvnz] Suggestions for a MythTV Box

[Guy Lowe]

Andrew Ruthven wrote:
> On Fri, 2007-06-01 at 15:17 +1200, Criggie wrote:
>> Andrew Ruthven wrote:
>>> 100GB will record about 45 hours of footage with my current settings.
>> Yes - will DVB use disk space faster or slower than an analogue recording?
> 
> I'm storing them as MPEG2, but at a lower resolution, so DVB (also
> MPEG2) will probably consume the space faster.
> 
>> And after your mythbox has been running a year or so you end up with many
>> Gb of exported recordings to save... I have 95 Gb on the main server, of
>> which 40 Gb is kids programs, and another 40 Gb is kids movies.
> 
> Ah, we've been ruthless.  The stuff we want to keep goes on DVDs.  And
> there isn't much of that.
> 
Have you considered transcoding? At the moment I'm transcoding to
mpeg4 (My myth box is only a p4 1.6, so I have my desktop doing all
the transcoding and commflagging), and recordings are around a third
of their original size without any visible quality loss.