Too funny. I just started recording Modern Marvels yesterday, and already I have 3 episodes :)<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 4/26/05, <b class="gmail_sendername">Andrew Close</b> <<a href="mailto:aclose@gmail.com">
aclose@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">On 4/26/05, Tom Lichti <<a href="mailto:tom@redpepperracing.com">
tom@redpepperracing.com</a>> wrote:<br>> Mark Knecht wrote:<br>> > Hi,<br>> > I'm just learning about MythTV at this point. It's setup and<br>> > working nicely but using up disk space rather quickly. Is 2GB/Hr. more
<br>> > or less typical for recording TV programs or are the optimizations I<br>> > need to study next to save space?<br><br>that's roughly what i get too (~2.1 - 2.3GB/hr). i'm filling up my<br>300GB hard drive faster than i can watch the Modern Marvels episodes
<br>i've been recording. :)<br><br>> PS Start looking at bigger hard drives... :)<br><br>or you can check out 'transcode', which will significantly shrink the<br>size of your files but will also reduce the quality some. it's not
<br>easy to find simple instructions on how to use it though. i'm still<br>digging through the archives and transcode man pages...<br>_______________________________________________<br>mythtv-users mailing list<br><a href="mailto:mythtv-users@mythtv.org">
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