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| Thread ID: 99466 | 2009-05-03 04:44:00 | If you're getting freeview on your PC | Speedy Gonzales (78) | PC World Chat |
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| 770605 | 2009-05-03 09:42:00 | Drat, if I want to record HDTV, I'll need a larger hard drive. :p | pcuser42 (130) | ||
| 770606 | 2009-05-03 09:51:00 | I'm recording Bloodsport on C4 at the mo. To see what it looks like. Its a LOT less than BTTF 2 last night. At 10 mins it was around 300mb, compared to BTTF's 800 mb for 8 mins lol. I'll just record it till the end, then edit it after. 250 should be enough |
Speedy Gonzales (78) | ||
| 770607 | 2009-05-03 10:11:00 | I'm recording Bloodsport on C4 at the mo. To see what it looks like. Its a LOT less than BTTF 2 last night. At 10 mins it was around 300mb, compared to BTTF's 800 mb for 8 mins lol. I'll just record it till the end, then edit it after. 250 should be enough You'll notice that C4 is a much lower resolution (720x576) compared to TV3 (1920x1088) and TV1/2 (1280x720). That will be why the recordings are taking up much less space. |
somebody (208) | ||
| 770608 | 2009-05-03 10:19:00 | Yup correct, 576i I think it is?? Compared to 3's 1080i C4 is still a LOT clearer than the normal TV using the outside aerial. (With the mini aerial that came with the tuner). |
Speedy Gonzales (78) | ||
| 770609 | 2009-05-03 15:02:00 | well at the moment i have a 465gig hdd over 100 gig used for captured MPEG's and movies that was with an analogue receiver/capture card, eventually i shall get a digital terrestrial receiver and possibly a more recent motherboard. however with my current settings i can get over 80 minutes or so in the same (800Mb) space with reasonable quality, using an MPEG "VCD" quality setting.. AVI wouldnt record more than 12 minutes (4GIG!!!) and the other settings lag a bit (possibly ram or crap mobo specs) |
williamF (115) | ||
| 770610 | 2009-05-03 21:26:00 | Well I just bought another 1TB HDD....and encoding is no issue hardware spec wise... But we don't get HD in Nelson either!! :( One day. I email Freeview about once a week asking when it will be coming. :p Hopefully i'll annoy them enough to get a mention. |
wratterus (105) | ||
| 770611 | 2009-05-03 22:51:00 | Freeview|HD (DVB-T) - TV3 works out to about 6Gb an hour - H.264 Video with HE-AAC-LC sound. Freeview (the DVB-S one) about 2gb an hour MPEG2. For tuners I have an HVR3000 (does DVB-S, or DVB-T) and a Nova T 500 (Dual DVB-T) and a PVR500 (Dual Analog, one hooked to FTA Aerial for Prime etc, and the other to my Sky box). Running it into a 1.5TB drive, I tend to keep the drive at about 50% used. Software is GBPVR - written by a Wellingtonian, and free. A note I saw from an earlier post, DVB Tuners don't "convert" the video stream. Their beauty is that dump what is transmitted to the hard drive. Meaning any cheap DVB-T tuner will work. When they talk about formats, it's normally their bundled software. So most bought tuners will have bundled software that generally WONT work here. Hence why us in NZ need to look at GBPVR/MediaPortal of Windows7 |
psycik (12851) | ||
| 770612 | 2009-05-03 23:04:00 | Yup that'll be about right, and C4 was 3.9 GB for just under 2 hrs (5 mins short of 2 hrs). It'll probably be less once I edit it tho. | Speedy Gonzales (78) | ||
| 770613 | 2009-05-03 23:08:00 | How would one record into .mkv? That seems to be the most widely used format for HD TV content. 45mins is about 1.09GB it seems, I'm pretty sure that's 720p. (using the new prison break episodes as an example here) |
wratterus (105) | ||
| 770614 | 2009-05-03 23:25:00 | Yup that'll be about right, and C4 was 3.9 GB for just under 2 hrs (5 mins short of 2 hrs). It'll probably be less once I edit it tho. Hmm, shouldnt have been that big since C4 is not HD. And for editing good luck....there isn't anything that can at the moment, our DVB-T format is so bleeding edge that software hasn't caught up with it yet. |
psycik (12851) | ||
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