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[vdr] Re: vdr killed my video archive
On Tue, 14 Oct 2003 17:53:08 +0200, Carsten Koch <Carsten.Koch@icem.com>
wrote:
> * On a DVD-R, you will lose some of the space you paid for,
> unless you are lucky and the movie fits exactly (unless
> you make it fit by recompressing).
If I look at the typical sizes of my recordings (2.5-5.7 GB) I would not
be able to put more than one on disk most of the time. Recompressing is
no alternativ because of quality loss and time effort.
> * Sometimes even the best move is no longer worth watching.
> So the freedom to erase it and re-use the space is not to
> be ignored (at least for me).
That's the same here.
> And, of course I like the luxory to use vdr from my bedroom
> (two floors away from the actual VDR PC) without having to
> get up and insert new media. But this is getting far OT....
A changer would be an alternative but it would add considerable to the
costs.
Everyone has his own preferences, so I go the same way as you, other's
may go the way of Matthias. As Linux and VDR is totally flexible
everyone has the free choice. ;-)
Emil
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