Hi there! HDMI and Recording size.

[atrass]

I'm new to all this. I live in Casino, northern NSW and have had great support from Country IT in getting together a media centre. I asked to try to put most of it together myself and I'm blundering along quite nicely.

The owner helped me by recommending what I've listed in MMC.
I'm using xp pro at the moment and am just getting the hang of the TV tuners, with recording, saving and stuff.

I've tried doing numerous searches and yet have not come up with anything, so i am asking and if I've missed some searches, please let me know.

At this moment, I trying to run a 10m HDMI cable running from my MC to the TV in the lounge.

Can I have a program running both on the TV, with the HDMI, and on my MC, using the RBG lead so that I can prepare?

Also, the TV programs that I'm saving are using about 20GB per Hour and a friend is down to 4GB and isn't sure of what settings to change.

Well, there I go. My first foray into world of blogs.

Thanks

[ozhound]

Re: Sizes of recordings. If you are both using XP Media Centre then I would suggest that you are recording HD channels and your friend is recording SD channels. 20GB per hour is definitly HD and 4GB is about right for SD. AFAIK (not that i have been concerned enough to try) but there is no way to change the encoding type / settings that MC uses to write its DVR-MS format.

Also why the concern? you can buy 500GB Hard drives for well under $200 now days.

And if money and space premits i would move to a dedicated media centre asap, messing around with different output types from a single pc never ends the way you think it will.