Why movies recorded now take so much space?

[nixus]

Hi mates
Have noticed, that starting from some time in the last 2-3 months maybe, recorded movies on hdd occupy about 6-7Gb (2 hours movie) and time shown is double time of movie ( when movie plays, time decreases by 2 sec)
So double space on hdd is relarted to double time (physycal time of course correct)

This effect is image independent
Do you know something about this?

[pepaaa]

it's probably better quality broadcast or perhaps includes more audio tracks? Could be the programme is HD or dolby digital, it is higher bit rate ;o)

[nixus]

Not sure this is a reason

[Kevan]

Capture for 5 minutes and use ProjectX to analyse the bitstream for you. I'm not sure whether I can post the link but you can look it up with Google with keyword
doom9 dot net and search for "project X"

Link:
www.doom9.org/DigiTV/projectx-fullguide.htm

[pepaaa]

Yes, that would be a way to find out... I think you can also see this information on VLC statistics.

I don't think dreambox does anything with the stream it gets from the sattelite. It just save it to a file, ya?