[mythtv-users] Howto prevent MythTV flushing/Syncing disk writes (LiveTV/Recordings)

[Mark Boyum]

On 3/18/08, Albert Graham <agraham at g-b.net> wrote:
>
> Christopher X. Candreva wrote:
> > On Tue, 18 Mar 2008, Albert Graham wrote:
> >
> >
> >> I think when people setup MythTV backend they'd rather use modern
> >> powerful hardware (as best they can afford).
> >>
> >
> > Speak for yourself : I would rather use whatever I can scrounge up for
> free
> > that will do the job. :-)
> >
> > And I did.
> >
> Christopher,
>
> You're clearly a resourceful man :), but I know what you mean, I have
> about 40 CDROM drives, 100's of old hard drives, tons of multi-function
> cards, millions of network cards etc.., but then you change your
> motherboard or something and they're all useless, but that's progress
> for you.
>
> I think MythTV is one of the very best apps out there and well worth
> investing in good hardware - which hopefully will last a few years
> before it's on the scrap heap.
>
> Albert.
>
>
>
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I have gone Christopher's route.  Mythtv has certainly transformed how we
watch television in our house, but it would never have happened it didn't
run well on my old hardware.  I think it is a great application to help keep
old machines out of the scrap heap longer.  My current combo BE/FE is a six
or seven year old PC that can record two sd streams and play a third without
a hitch.

Likewise, when I start doing HD playback I intend to make my current desktop
(four years old) a dedicated frontend.

Sorry for the useless list traffic, I just wanted to let Christopher know
that he isn't alone running MythtTV on dated hardware.

-Mark
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