You may want to go for a hardware solution .. http://www.litec-computer.de/Festplatten/35/UDMA/Seagate-ST3750640A-750GB-72 00RPM-16MB::10223.html would make 250 Films ? 3GB .. let's assume: 3GB equals 1 hour and think of: max. 8 hours per day viewing .. would mean you have more than 30 days, "instant fun" .. -> So coding, testing, bug fixing costs a lot more than a new hard drive .. go and get yourself a new hard disc :-) And I am not kidding .. And if you think of HTDV in germany: h264 is on it's way, which is "one more" then DivX, which is h263. So within short time you have high defition TV with high compression. Cheers, Martin -----Urspr?ngliche Nachricht----- Von: vdr-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:vdr-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx] Im Auftrag von Carsten Koch Gesendet: Dienstag, 12. September 2006 17:38 An: VDR Mailing List Betreff: Doubling my available VDR disk space without cost or loss of convenience. Most of my VDR movies are between 2 and 3 GB in size. I assume that there would be no noticeable loss of quality, if I would convert them to DivX movies of about half the size, maybe also removing any unwanted sound tracks. This could even be done automatically by a background process. However, that would be inconvenient, because now I would have to check both the Recordings menu and the Mplayer plugin to look for a recording. So, I wonder if it would be easy to make that transparent, so there is only one user interface that takes me to all recordings. Carsten. _______________________________________________ vdr mailing list vdr@xxxxxxxxxxx http://www.linuxtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/vdr
