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Originally posted by Dan0208
I see many capped high definition tv shows for download on the internet and a 1hr episode is around 350mb
Many TV episodes on the internet are tagged as being HDTV, but they are really not HDTV. They are just from a HDTV source, and have been downscaled and recompressed.
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Originally posted by Dan0208
if i was to record a one hour episode it would create a file around 4200mb.
You can expect that and even higher for real HDTV OTA, but if you renecode those files after you have recorded them, you should be able get them down to one or two CDs still keeping decent quality in HD.
I'm sorry, I dont know of how this could be done, but I hear that Virtualdub is very good. It's often used with Avisynth (lets many programs open files that aren't AVI thinking that they are uncompressed AVI). XviD and x264 are good codecs. x264 gives better quality than XviD at equal bitrates, but x264 takes an enormous amount of CPU power (for decode I know, for encode I assume), If you have a powerful system, this mightn't be a problem, but if you take HD x264 to a friends computer, it might not play.
If you record five shows one day, it should take about 20 GiB (from what you've stated). The next day, you can recompress those episodes, and fit them all onto one or two DVDs (depends on the size you choose), and delete the originals.
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