[mythtv-users] *Performance* of LiveTV auto recording?

Kevin Kuphal kuphal at dls.net
Tue Apr 18 18:37:18 UTC 2006


Pekka Savola wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I want to be able to disable LiveTV's auto recording.  Well, I found this LOONG 
> thread, but the only thing discussed was the problem with disk space required 
> by LiveTV.
>
> I don't care about disk space.  My reason is performance.  I don't have too 
> fast a system (P3/800), and watching LiveTV already gulps about 180 MB of 
> memory and about 30-50% of CPU.  I have done no measurements, but I suspect a 
> non-trivial part of that is due to disk-I/O (yes, DMA is enabled).
>
> I'd argue the performance would be higher (significantly so?  I hope..) if you 
> could just watch the DVB stream instead of unnecessarily "swapping" it to disk 
> first.
>
> Thoughts?
>
>   
Create a new menu item using the EXEC TV command (search the archives 
for it) to launch xawtv or whatever TV *viewer* you want to use.  Myth 
records TV and it isn't going to change.

Kevin


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