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31st January 2007, 05:57 | #1 | Link |
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Disadvantages to extra-large .ts capture file sizes?
I'm very new to HDTV capture -- I've captured perhaps three programs so far. I've been reading around this forum for the past two weeks or so, and a question arises:
My MyHD card default setting is to capture a program in 2GB chunks. You can set a custom maximum file size in the configuration settings if one chooses. I haven't tried this yet. It just seems sort of clunky to me to have a one-hour program chopped up into four or five files. Even if I just load them all consecutively into DGIndex (as one would do for multiple VOB files ripped from a DVD), it seems like an unnecessary step. Are most of you capturing in 2GB files? Is there any advantage to using this file size (apart from it being a manageable size if you wanted to burn the .ts files directly to a DVD to archive, something I don't intend to do)? What might be the disadvantage, if any, to setting the max file size at, say, 10GB? This seems like the way to go, but I haven't started trying to compress and reencode any of these files to another format yet, so I don't know what problems might be encountered if I did go with much bigger files. |
31st January 2007, 06:03 | #2 | Link |
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As long as your file system is NTFS, it's just fine to have the bigger files. They default it to 2GB to allow for people that have FAT32 formatted disks. I don't even have a maximum for my captures via Dvico Fusion. It all goes into one file.
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1st February 2007, 20:48 | #6 | Link |
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I think I have my max filesize for MyHD set at 40Gb. I think I've only seen one or two recordings around 30Gb (movies of course, with commercials).
I import these w/no trouble to VideoReDo for editing. The only reason I can imagine to record in smaller chunks is if you want to burn those chunks as-is to DVD or something. |
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