Originally posted by KidJoe
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I record a TS file at 8.2 Mbps constant rate, which for a full two-hour recording gives me around 8GB file/9210 kbps total bitrate. Audio bitrate is 640kbps A52/AC3, either stereo or 6 channel, depending if I'm ripping from my Firestick or my Comcast DVR, respectively.
But because I then convert it to mp4 using Wondershare Uniconverter - to crop or enhance it, or edit out commercials, or splice it to remove "next episode" notices, whatever - that drops the file size to 6.38GB (average mp4 direct download) 8441kbps total bitrate, and the audio to 320kbps AAC, either 6-channel or stereo. If I rip using mp4 rather than TS (which is the setting Hauppage recommends), the audio is only 64kbps, so forget that. The only thing I ever fooled around with much was the audio bitrate, which defaults to either 128 or 192kbps, I forget which, so I'm sure you and other tech whizzes on this forum can probably see a lot better ways to get much better results.
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