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<blockquote data-quote="elsmandino" data-source="post: 895053" data-attributes="member: 111675">Hi there,&nbsp;Thanks very much for all that.&nbsp;I do agree that if space were no problem, I probably would not bother converting much.&nbsp; Unforunately, I have an NSK2480 case that only holds two 3.5&quot; hard drives (I have two 2TB drives) and the 5.25&quot; space has a 500GB laptop drive in it. &nbsp;I suppose I should consider my options before deciding to shrink/edit everything, like getting a different case or a NAS or something.&nbsp; I also guess it makes a difference if you have a reason for the conversions like Porky, other than just for saving space.&nbsp;When you guys say you just skip through the ads, is this for everything on you have recorded or just things that you are going to watch and then delete?&nbsp; I wouldn't edit anything that I was going to delete but I have loads of series and films recorded that I watch a lot - do you ever edit these, given you are going to keep them?&nbsp;I suppose the one thing that might be worth doing is having a go at actually doing some converting and see if the process is too long winded to warrant my buying more space anyway.&nbsp;What settings would you guys use in Handbrake to encode some standard definition recordings (I only ever record SD)?&nbsp;For the video, I would convert to H.264 but what about the audio?&nbsp;As Owlsroost says, the broadcaster dictates which one of three audio standards are provided and I assume that as I am only dealing with SD broadcasts, this can only be MP2 or AAC.&nbsp;Do you think I should just use the autopass thru option mentioned by erichzann?&nbsp;Thanks again for all your help.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="elsmandino, post: 895053, member: 111675"] Hi there, Thanks very much for all that. I do agree that if space were no problem, I probably would not bother converting much. Unforunately, I have an NSK2480 case that only holds two 3.5" hard drives (I have two 2TB drives) and the 5.25" space has a 500GB laptop drive in it. I suppose I should consider my options before deciding to shrink/edit everything, like getting a different case or a NAS or something. I also guess it makes a difference if you have a reason for the conversions like Porky, other than just for saving space. When you guys say you just skip through the ads, is this for everything on you have recorded or just things that you are going to watch and then delete? I wouldn't edit anything that I was going to delete but I have loads of series and films recorded that I watch a lot - do you ever edit these, given you are going to keep them? I suppose the one thing that might be worth doing is having a go at actually doing some converting and see if the process is too long winded to warrant my buying more space anyway. What settings would you guys use in Handbrake to encode some standard definition recordings (I only ever record SD)? For the video, I would convert to H.264 but what about the audio? As Owlsroost says, the broadcaster dictates which one of three audio standards are provided and I assume that as I am only dealing with SD broadcasts, this can only be MP2 or AAC. Do you think I should just use the autopass thru option mentioned by erichzann? Thanks again for all your help. [/QUOTE]

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