How many hours of video can my MVP-2000(r) store?
Just as a cassette in a videotape library requires a certain amount of space to store, an MPEG file will require a certain amount of storage space on a hard drive. MPEG files can be encoded at varying data rates. As the data rate increases, the picture quality also increases, but so does the file size. If the total anticipated size of all the MPEG files you plan to encode exceeds the available hard drive space, you must either reduce the MPEG encoding rate or increase the available disk space. Consider the running time of your source material, the encoding data rate, and the amount of free space on your MVP-2000(r) hard drive before you begin your encoding session. The MVP-2000(r) has 20 gigabyte drive, which will hold approximately 10.1 hours of video at 4.5 Mb/s data rate, and approximately 38.9 hours of video at 1 Mb/s. You can approximate MPEG file sizes using the following formula: File size (in megabytes) = MPEG data rate (in megabits per second) x file length (in seconds) / 8 (b
