Live TV Recording Settings

[js28194 63]

Hello, 1% problem here.... I have my setup at home that records OTA HDHomerun OTA devices (Football is important) and OTA recordings are about 4GB file size.  Fine and Manageable.   

Now I have a completely secondary setup elsewhere in the ether that I record Cable via a HDHomerund Prime (CableCard) from FS1 for the rest of the matches.  Those recordings are a fraction over 11GB.  Is there anything I can do an tweak to make them smaller?  I've poked around and do not see anything that jumps out and smacks me in the face.  Yes, I agree after the fact I can do some remux with handbrake or makemkv magic, but just wondering if anything can be done?   Does anybody have a "post processing" magical script to reduce the bitrate?  I sense this is probably the route that is going to have to occur automagically.

OTA comes in over 720p at 4mbps

Cable comes in over 720p at 13mps

 

Audio seems to the same.

Edited June 12 by js28194

[TMCsw 279]

https://emby.media/support/articles/Convert-Media.html

[Luke 42709]

Hi, yes the server's convert feature can help with this.

[js28194 63]

On 6/12/2026 at 11:54 PM, Luke said:

Hi, yes the server's convert feature can help with this.

I suppose that works... manual process.  I'll have to script it later.  Thanks.