Recorded TV File Size - What am I missing? (1 Viewer)

[duddingc]

Just started recording TV for the first time and it is working fine. Trouble is the file size for a movie is about 5gb and about 1gb for an hour of TV.

The TV signal input I have is not HD-quality and I think a lot of drive space is being wasted on my TV signal.

TV Server config doesn't seem to have a setting to change the quality of the recording - it is possible to adjust this?

 

[Paranoid Delusion]

Normal mpeg transmissions work out to be around 1.5gb per hour and is not configurable (older 4:3 content is smaller), I take it there are a lot of adverts to get to 5gb

This should be the same for the Hauppauge software if you wish to do a comparison.

 

[duddingc]

Good info, thanks. Question for the forum: when I go to torrent sites, most TV is about 350 megs/hour, and HD is about 1 gig/hour. how do these uploaders get their video into this format?

Curious.

Best regards

 

[jsimo01]

Scene releases are re-encoded to MPEG-4 (XviD) and conform to strict file size rules, you can use MPEG2CUT and AutoGK to re-encode your files to 350MB or whatever. Both are Freeware and are easy to use.

 

[Paranoid Delusion]

Or automate things using MCEBuddy, that will use comskip to cut out adverts and allow you to set a delay of say 15 days (configurable) before it transcodes, so it only does the recordings you wish to keep, this is working on the principal most recordings have been watched\deleted by that time.

You need to change the format supported in mcebuddy config to *.ts and enable.

Check the comskip.ini used, predioux one is quite agrressive at finding commercials, just rename, but change original to old.

 

[DerZwen]

did anyone get mcebuddy to work with 2 or more audiotracks?

 

[etheesdad]

apparently "for the record" plugin also does postprocessing (I Havent tried it tho)

 

[duddingc]

Follow-up question: how do I get MCE Buddy working?

It's been awhile but I installed MCE Buddy and got it running - trouble is it wants to stay in idle and won't convert the mpg or .ts files I have in my recorded tv folder.

Has anyone gotten MCE Buddy working, or has anyone found a better way to compress recorded TV?

rgds

 

[rekenaar]

Mine is working.
Can you post screenshot of your settings?

 

[tourettes]

apparently "for the record" plugin also does postprocessing (I Havent tried it tho)

Actually similar results could be achieved by using the comskip feature in TVE3, just use something other than the comskip exceutable as the target