how much space on disk?

Before I went on holiday I set my PVR to record some stuff
and it gauged that I was going to fill the disk (so much so that
I had to delete some stuff from the list).

Now that I am back, I find that it is only half full.

Presumably, different channels are transmitted at different
bandwidths and saving them uses up a different amount of
disk (with the PVR assuming whatever is the largest).

Is there a table somewhere with this Bandwidth information
so that I can gauge better next time.

TIA

tim

"tim....." wrote in message
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Before I went on holiday I set my PVR to record some stuff
and it gauged that I was going to fill the disk (so much so that
I had to delete some stuff from the list).

Now that I am back, I find that it is only half full.

Presumably, different channels are transmitted at different
bandwidths and saving them uses up a different amount of
disk (with the PVR assuming whatever is the largest).

Is there a table somewhere with this Bandwidth information
so that I can gauge better next time.

I think it depends on the programme material as well: a lot of action and
detail uses up more space. I have the Humax PVR-9200T and I think the
documentation implies that video uses 2GB per hour - in practice it seems to
vary between 1200 and 1800 MB per hour.

--
Max Demian

On 02/09/2007 11:24, tim..... wrote:

Presumably, different channels are transmitted at different
bandwidths
Is there a table somewhere with this Bandwidth information
so that I can gauge better next time.

http://www.mymuxdata.tk/

It hasn't been updated for the recent ITV/CH4 changes but that won't
have had much effect

With statmuxing of groups of channels the best you can do is assume it
evens out so that e.g. ABC1/Bid.tv/Price-drop.tv would average at 2Mb/s
each.

On 02/09/2007 11:24, tim..... wrote:

Is there a table somewhere with this Bandwidth information

I knew I had another bookmark hiding somewhere
http://uk.geocities.com/talk2me2u/mux.html

Andy Burns wrote:

Is there a table somewhere with this Bandwidth information

I knew I had another bookmark hiding somewhere
http://uk.geocities.com/talk2me2u/mux.html

Why do all those tables say "kilobytes/second"? Shouldn't that be
kilobits/second? And how come someone creates and updates these tables
without knowing the difference? (The bandwidth figures would be
rather high if they really were kilobytes/second.)

--
znark

"Andy Burns" wrote in message
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On 02/09/2007 11:24, tim..... wrote:

Is there a table somewhere with this Bandwidth information

I knew I had another bookmark hiding somewhere
http://uk.geocities.com/talk2me2u/mux.html

Thanks. Looks like I can safely expect to get 30-50%
more ITV/C4/5 than I can BBC.

tim

"Jukka Aho" wrote in message
ti.fi...
Andy Burns wrote:

Is there a table somewhere with this Bandwidth information

I knew I had another bookmark hiding somewhere
http://uk.geocities.com/talk2me2u/mux.html

Why do all those tables say "kilobytes/second"? Shouldn't that be
kilobits/second? And how come someone creates and updates these tables
without knowing the difference? (The bandwidth figures would be rather
high if they really were kilobytes/second.)


The error might be understandable (but not by us obviously) if it was
abbreviated,
kB/s vs. kb/s

--
Graham.
%Profound_observation%

"Max Demian" wrote in message
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"tim....." wrote in message
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Before I went on holiday I set my PVR to record some stuff
and it gauged that I was going to fill the disk (so much so that
I had to delete some stuff from the list).

Now that I am back, I find that it is only half full.

Presumably, different channels are transmitted at different
bandwidths and saving them uses up a different amount of
disk (with the PVR assuming whatever is the largest).

Is there a table somewhere with this Bandwidth information
so that I can gauge better next time.

I think it depends on the programme material as well: a lot of action and
detail uses up more space. I have the Humax PVR-9200T and I think the
documentation implies that video uses 2GB per hour - in practice it seems
to vary between 1200 and 1800 MB per hour.

I think you're pretty spot on there Max. I recorded all three one hour long
BBC4 episodes of 'Atom' on my Humax PVR9200. I then transfered the .ts files
onto my computer which I then converted to mpeg 2 and burnt onto a single
DVD, the picture quality was indistinguishable from the original recording,
with the total file size being just under 4.5 GB.


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Max Demian