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On Mon, 09 Jan 2006 00:00:47 -0600, Michael Sullivan wrote: |
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> I recorded a two-hour movie off telivision this evening. I watched it |
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> and it looks fine, but the file size is really big: 4.3GB. Is this |
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> normal? |
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Certainly. The size depends on the quality at which it has been recorded, |
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and this is about the right size for a DVD quality MPEG. Of course |
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recording from broadcast TV at DVD quality is rather pointless. |
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> Is there |
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> anything I can do to get the file size down so that it can fit on a CD? |
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ffmpeg is probably the easiest way to do this, but make sure you emerge |
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it with the doc USE flag or you won't get the man page, which contains |
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some examples of this sort of thing. |
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Neil Bothwick |
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