[mythtv-users] Building a system from scratch

[D Banerjee]

> Not necessarily... like you said, with multiple tuners (or even one for
that
> matter), the hardcore encoder can let me capture at high-quality (and big
> file size) at almost no cost to the cpu, while at the same time
transcoding
> in the background those same recordings down to a reasonable mpeg4 size.
> Yes I know this is compressing twice (actually thrice since I'm on digital
> satellite), but maybe it also stems from the fact I've always been
> super-paranoid about audio/video sync :-)  I've been burned one that
before,
> so I love that the pvr recordings are perfectly synced... if yours are
> sync'ed on an analog card, hey more power to you :-)

*shrug*  running since 0.11, never had a sync issue. Although when I
considered upgrading to a hardware encoder on a low-cpu machine, it seems
apparent that when many recordings are scheduled in a row I could fill the
disk and fragment the files, when it should be unnecessary. (Besides doesn't
mythcommflag need to run before you can watch it with commercial skip?)
Since upgrading my cpu it just doesn't look very appetizing anymore.
Although I am out of pci slots and have thought about severely
under-clocking an old p3 with a pvr as a low-power no-noise solid state
slave backend.