# How much hard drive space would this video capture take up?

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**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [December 29, 2003, 6:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-hard-drive-space-would-this-video-capture-take-up/221610 "2003-12-29T18:59:29Z")\
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**Author:** ![the\_terminator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/848f3c/32.png) [@the\_terminator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/the_terminator)\
**Post date:** [December 29, 2003, 6:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-hard-drive-space-would-this-video-capture-take-up/221610/1 "2003-12-29T18:59:29Z")

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Does anyone know approximately how much hard drive space would be taken up by capturing an 83 minute video with the Huffyuv codec at 640X480 resolution?

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**Author:** ![neutron\_star](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/51bf81/32.png) [@neutron\_star](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/neutron_star)\
**Post date:** [December 30, 2003, 3:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-hard-drive-space-would-this-video-capture-take-up/221610/2 "2003-12-30T03:10:37Z")

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Should be roughly 40GB.