[mythtv-users] High disk activity

Wolfgang Grunewald wmgrunewald at web.de
Mon Dec 10 18:52:14 UTC 2007


Phil Bridges wrote:

> On Dec 10, 2007 10:44 AM, Wolfgang Grunewald <wmgrunewald at web.de> wrote:
> 
> >
> > > > When I record the stream "manually" using
> > >
> > > >   http://tinyurl.com/26x2oj
> > >
> > > Besides the fact that LiveTV is reading and writing,
> >
> > Sure, the "cat to disk while playing with mplayer" method also
> > is reading and writing.
> 
> This isn't reading as well, is it?

mplayer is reading from my harddisk:

xterm1: cat /dev/dvb/adapter0/dvr0 > stream.ts
xterm2: mplayer -fs stream.ts

You can try it on your box. On my box, there's heavy writing (!)
activity with MythTV. When I stop the mythbackend and invoke
the two commands above, it's gone.

Wolfgang
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