[mythtv-users] Frontend for HD Content question.

[James Crow]

On Wed, 2008-12-10 at 19:10 -0800, Nick Ellson wrote:
> Ok, I have tried recording and playback with no setting changes.
> 
> When I go to Watch TV, Select my first HDHR Tuner and press record and 
> watch it a second I still see the issues with jitter. I navigate away to 
> the main memu and wait 10 mins. I come back to Watch Recorded TV and 
> select the program that is currently recording. It starts off where I 
> first started recording but the playback is MUCH better. Only tiny 
> glitches when teh news was showing a football play and there was massive 
> color changes. It stayed like that while i watched. When I stopped 
> recording and started playback again, it was the same as the second time.. 
> Very good playback except for a glitch here and there and it was 
> consistant glitches so i suspect they got commited to disk as the 
> recording process was running.
> 
> Now, last night when it was just nasty, my wife also had two other NTSC 
> recordings from the PVR500 spooling to disk. So perhaps Disk IO is an 
> issue. I may need to dedicate a drive for the HD Content... Can I separate 
> the storage locations per tuner?
> 
> I also want to look at the idea of dedicating a NIC on the back end just 
> for the HDHome Run, that sounded like a nice idea. And see how the profile 
> change works as well.
> 
> Thanks for all the ideas everyone!
> 
>   Nick
> 

Nick, rather than dedicating a drive to HD recordings, just add another
drive to the default storage group. Let Myth balance the i/o load
itself. If you have two HD recordings at the same time it should spool
one to each disk.

If you really want to have one disk just for HD you can create another
storage group and set all HD recordings to use it while the SD stuff
goes to the default storage group.

Cheers,
James