[mythtv-users] Questions about Upcoming 0.19

Raphael Pooser rpooser at gmail.com
Wed Jan 25 15:35:49 UTC 2006


Gavin Haslett wrote:
> I was reading the change list published for the upcoming 0.19 upgrade and a few things occurred to me;
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> 1. For the new LiveTV improvements, will it be possible to set the expiration of LiveTV recordings to, say, 4 hours? I know expiration is currently done on a daily basis, but to be honest I can't think of a single time when I'd want to retain a LiveTV recording for mor than 4 hours or so.
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> 2. Any thoughts on adding a checkbox to use "classic mode" LiveTV instead of the new version? I did a quick test on the SVN version about two weeks ago, and found that my disk subsystem was thrashing a lot more frequently than with 0.18. I presumed this was due to the LiveTV changes that occurred. Of course, this might just be my second Linux install on the box :)
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> 3. Didn't get a chance to test this... but how well does XvMC work with the OSD and deinterlace? I know this is a bad combination in 0.18, but my video looks SOOO much better with kernel deint turned on, and it's a lot smoother with XvMC, so currently I just live with flickery OSD.
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> Anyway, just brainfarts... it's too early in the AM (and pre-coffee) for any truly coherent thought :)
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Actually my question is, is mythtv now going to become more hardware 
intensive, just to do SD?  The hard disk thrashing question frightens 
me, because right now I get by with 512MB of RAM, _no_ swap, and my hard 
drive set to the lowest performance level/highest acm level so that it 
is completely silent.  I don't want hard drive performance to need to 
become a factor when watching TV....  Can anyone shed some light on this?
I suppose I can always hold back from upgrading, but it looks like .19.1 
may solve a lot of problems, well more like little glitches really.
Raphael


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