Friday, July 29, 2005

SageTV Example

Here's a specific example of what I was talking about last time. I have 3 1-hour episodes to pack on a single DVD. The first one was recorded at 4Mbps MPEG2 w/ 384Kbps AC3. The second two episodes are done at 6Mbps MPEG2 w/ 384Kbps AC3. Episode durations are 42m39s + 41m21s + 42m13s. According to TMPGEnc DVD Author, this will result in a DVD that is 5502MB (over the max of 4438MB).

That's 24% over the limit for a 4.35GB DVD, but I expect that since it's a trio of letterboxed source material that it might pack down tight enough to fit. (If not, I'll break out DVD Shrink and make it fit.) Creating the DVD takes around 16 minutes on my Opteron 246 system (pair of Opterons). CPU utilization is only 38% (76% of one of the CPUs). The disks are pulling 20MB/s around (I'm disk-bound).

The final size was 4.06GB (4157MB), smaller then the limit on a 4.35GB DVD.

Labels: 2005, VideoCapture

posted by Wuphon's at 10:43 AM (0 comments)