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[willieb9000]

My High Quality hour long shows are usually 1,638,xxx or 1,639,xxx 
bytes. As you can see this is really not saving that space (unless 
you have a 3G drive :). I agree with Merch that you should try a few 
without it -- also it really does look *a lot* better with it off :) 


--- In ExtractStream@y..., Roger Merchberger <zmerch7@y...> wrote:
> --- "Edmond E. Shwayri" <eshwayri@n...> wrote:
> 
> [[ I tried clipping out the HTML... but no guarantees... :-( ]]
> 
> > Its not the "Save HD Space" option (or whatever its called -
> > can't remember). I have that turned on and I don't get bad 
sequence
> > errors in the middle of any of my files. Does anyone know
> > what this option really does?
> 
> Yes, it enables the Tivo to record in VBR mode instead of CBR 
mode...
> AFAIK, it doesn't change the audio recording in any way; just the
> video - but don't quote me on that, for IANATCE. {I Am Not A Tivo
> Company Engineer ;-) }
> 
> > I have a 1 hr show recorded in high quality it takes 1,459,617,792
> > space. Could someone who has this option turned off tell me what
> > their extracted Ty stream takes?
> 
> My 1 hour high-quality tivo streams usually consume 1.6G - 1.65G of
> space, give or take .05G.
> 
> > I was thinking maybe this might have to do with my offset issues
> > (why they are as high as -512), but that makes no sense for me
> > because I have too much audio and not too little.
> 
> But what if you have the right amount of audio, but too little 
video,
> from the 'saved space' VBR setting? [I'm sure I worded that wrong...
> but it'll take me longer to fix it than it will for y'all to laugh 
at
> me... ;-) ]
> 
> Would that make it look like you have "too much audio?" Just 
throwing
> out possibilities... Can't hurt to try a few shows with the VBR
> turned off, and see what happens.
> 
> HTH,
> Roger "Merch" Merchberger
> 
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