[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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