Hi all,

Well in less than three weeks I've filled 250 gb with a lot of old reruns and some new HD programming. Shows are being deleted so fast I can't even keep track of what I'm losing.

I'm wondering what you all are doing.

Are you recording some or all in lower quality? If so, what settings are working for you? And how do your settings differ between HD and SD shows?

Or, are you transcoding after recording? If so, are you doing it manually or automatically? What settings are working well?

Or, are you recording at lower quality AND transcoding?

For archiving to a playable DVD, are you using Mytharchive, or are you creating Xvid/Divx discs?

Thanks in advance. I need to get this sorted out before I lose any more Star Trek episodes

Steve

Sempron 2800+ socket 754
PNY Verto nVidia 6200
1gb ram
dual air2pc ATSC (strictly OTA) $39.99 ebay special
250gb 7200rpm SATA

What I did to help with this issue is:

1. record less!

2. add a 160gb drive to supplement the 250gb main drive. I have linked /myth/video and myth/music to the second hard drive. This leaves the 250gb almost entirely for root and tv files.

3. I have used nuvexport to archive things I wanted to keep over to the second hard drive to video (either xvid or svcd or dvcd). This saves space and frees the main disk.

I have just started to play with mytharchive. I have tried the create dvd option and it is great when it works, but fails for unknown reasons often. I have not tried the native archive option, yet.

One thing I have found to be true about computers form the time I spent $320 for my first 40MB hard drive, you can never have enough hard drive space!

Hi,

The drive will appear to fill up because as you watch tv it is actually recording. However, those recordings will auto expire as the space is needed for the continued live tv viewing. When you record a show then those are preserved normally.

Be sure to check your menu settings so you can see the live recordings.

Mike

True, I'm recording more than I should. The novelty hasn't worn off yet. Bye-bye, Green Acres


Yeah, storage is cheap, on sale a 160gb drive won't cost much at all. But, I don't really see that as a "solution." Especially right now I'm not ripping any movies or music to this machine. Even with the OS overhead, I should be able to keep at least 200 hours of decent quality recordings. When I say decent quality, I'm thinking the quality of my ReplayTV box. I'm want to fix this without throwing money at it (saving that money for making a new front-end for the kitchen

OK I'll look at nuvexport.

Mytharchive seemed to work. I transcoded the recordings to a lower quality to save space. But I haven't played them back to see how well they look. One thing I don't like about mytharchive is that it doesn't seem to offer the option to automatically remove the recordings you archive


Yes, so it seems.

BTW, have you changed any of your storage/recording settings from the defaults?

Thanks, Steve

I don't normally use the myth box for viewing. At any time I only have a few days of recordings that I can view, so I know older recordings are being dropped.

Thanks though

Steve

Firstly, I don't yet get HD, so my space requirements are no where near as great as yours...

But also, I've got a server with 1TB which I store my videos on, and I regularly move recorded films and content I want to keep over to that.

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Actually, most of what I'm recording is 480i. Not all digital broadcasts are HD. Old reruns and even a lot of PBS is still SD. Nova, Nature, American Idol are really the only HD I record. Anyways, disks keep getting cheaper, I'm seeing that I'll want more storage anyways.