Compression of Recordings?

[sapper]

As I have mentioned else where, DVBViewer is an excellent peice of software, esp for its price, so well doen chaps

 

 

However, one suggestion....

 

And if this clasehes with another post, please forgive me.

 

Recording HD results naturally in large files, an hour long program is about 8 GB of space.

 

Is it possible to have a built in compression tool to reduce the size of the file, maybe to archive on DVD? I know there are compression tools out there, but it would be a lovley feature to be able to compress the resulting.ts file into maybe a smaller fiel simialr to the .mkv containers?

 

Adrian

[Moses]

I'm quite sure that it's not possible to do it "on the fly", yet... anyway you will have a quality loss in the compression, which raises the question if it is not better to record mpeg2 anyway which can be burned on DVD much easier and without further quality loss...

 

So, such a feature, if possible (which is questionable at the current state of hardware, there are still many problems with playback of HD content, so there will be muuuuuuch more with recoding it!), is very unlikely... better rely on external tools for that.