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USB flash drive capacity

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Hello,
What USB capacity should I buy to record a movie with an average duration of 2 to 2.5 hours?
Thank you for your response.

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    MisteryBean Posted messages 8948 Registration date   Status Moderator Last intervention   1 292
     
    Hello,

    Right-click on the video => Properties => You will get the size of the video.

    If it's more than 4GB, you will need to format the drive to NTFS.

    A 2-hour movie can range from 400 MB to over 30 GB depending on the encoding.

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  2. MPMP10 Posted messages 47336 Registration date   Status Member Last intervention   18 957
     
    Hello,
    Regarding your question... 
    What USB capacity should I buy to record an average movie lasting 2 to 2.5 hours?

    When you think that you could just get a simple 32 GB or 64 GB USB stick at a supermarket for less than 20 euros to store any type of movie regardless of its size without any hassle, but well...!

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    1. brucine Posted messages 24849 Registration date   Status Member Last intervention   4 170
       
      I suppose the question is actually how many you can put in, since, indeed, putting just one is not much of a question.
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      1. MPMP10 Posted messages 47336 Registration date   Status Member Last intervention   18 957 > brucine Posted messages 24849 Registration date   Status Member Last intervention  
         
        Bonjour, 
        What USB capacity should I buy to record a movie with an average duration of 2 to 2.5 hours?
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      2. brucine Posted messages 24849 Registration date   Status Member Last intervention   4 170 > MPMP10 Posted messages 47336 Registration date   Status Member Last intervention  
         
        So let's buy an 8 GB USB key, it will cost (a little) less.

        If it's to record a SPECIFIC movie, we know its exact duration, not approximate, and any USB key will do (finding one that is less than 8 GB will require some effort...), which led me to assume that the question was ambiguous otherwise it has no interest:

        But well, we can go from quibble to quibble that it won't add any extra interest to the question.
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  3. seb77150 Posted messages 6285 Registration date   Status Member Last intervention   500
     
    Hi, what quality?

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    1. brucine Posted messages 24849 Registration date   Status Member Last intervention   4 170
       
      Hello,

      At the two usual extremes, a film recorded on TV via an operator box is in TS format, and for that duration, it weighs, ads and multi-language audio tracks included, willingly 6 GB or more, while a downloaded file is often in AVI format, around 700-800 MB (and of mediocre quality).

      The raw TS or possibly converted to MKV while keeping the original video and audio criteria (I have a multimedia bridge that breaks it down into 1 GB pieces, and I haven't found any functional way to merge in TS) will have more than enough quality to be viewed in HD on a 42-inch screen.

      Beyond that, I don’t know, but we will have to deal with a room large enough to have sufficient screen distance as well.
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      1. seb77150 Posted messages 6285 Registration date   Status Member Last intervention   500 > brucine Posted messages 24849 Registration date   Status Member Last intervention  
         
        He might not be recording it from his TV, I download 4K Blu-ray movies and their size is often around 55GB. Well, I don't think that's his case, but without more information, it's impossible to know.
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