h.264

I'm using some tricks to try to read the raw output of an AVAssetWriter while it is being written to disk. When I reassemble the individual files by concatenating them, the resulting file is the same exact number of bytes as the AVAssetWriter's output file. However, the reassembled file will not play in QuickTime or be parsed by FFmpeg because there is data corruption. A few bytes here and there have been changed, rendering the resulting file unusable. I assume this is occurring on the EOF boundary of each read, but it isn't consistent corruption. I plan to eventually use code similar to this

I am decoding a h264 video stream with the following code (original guide) : public void configure(Surface surface, int width, int height, ByteBuffer csd0) { String VIDEO_FORMAT = "video/avc"; if (mConfigured) { throw new IllegalStateException("Decoder is already configured"); } MediaFormat format = MediaFormat.createVideoFormat(VIDEO_FORMAT, width, height); // little tricky here, csd-0 is required in order to configure the codec properly // it is basically the first sample from encoder with flag: BUFFER_FLAG_CODEC_CONFIG format.setByteBuffer("csd-0", csd0); try { mCodec = MediaCodec

I'm looking for an order of magnitude estimate for expected on-disk file size for 1 hour of H.264 encoded HD video transcoded from HDV (HD on a MiniDV tape). I want to archive approximately 100 hours of such content and want to figure out whether I'm looking at a big hard drive, a multi-drive unit like a Drobo, or an enterprise-level storage system. Edit To clarify from several good comments, I am developing the software that will use this archived video and will also manage the transcoding from HDV to compressed format (using QuickTime on OS X). This question is for gathering hardware