[mythtv-users] Suspend jobs during record/playback

[Michael T. Dean]

On 02/19/2007 01:04 PM, Preston Crow wrote:
> Is there any way to suspend jobs during recording and playback?  My
> system has enough CPU and disk bandwidth to handle recording and
> playback of HDTV, but if it's also doing commercial detection or
> transcoding, I get corruption in the recording.
>
> If not, would it be easy to add an option to do this?  I suspect it
> could send SIGSTOP to jobs when recording or playback starts, and
> SIGCONT when all playback and recording stops.

http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/users/251183#251183
http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/dev/245125#245125
http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/dev/240415#240415

(whole thread for all of them) and

http://svn.mythtv.org/trac/ticket/2782

paying particular attention to Chris Pinkham's posts/comments (he's the 
guy who "owns" the job stuff ;).

Mike