[mythtv-users] liveTV sucking up CPU cycles?

Brad DerManouelian myth at dermanouelian.com
Mon Nov 10 02:18:01 UTC 2008


On Nov 9, 2008, at 5:54 PM, James Armstrong wrote:

>>>
>>>
>>> It would be nice to track down the issue, though, as playing LiveTV
>>> vs a
>>> recording (in progress or not) should behave the same.  Now that
>>> I've got a
>>> somewhat workable test system, I can help with some testing.
>>
>> If both the LiveTV and Default (or whatever you're using) recording
>> profile are set exactly the same, watching LiveTV uses extra
>> resources:
>> 1. It's recording the file and playing it back which may be difficult
>> in some file systems
>> 2. It's inserting information into recordedseek while it's recording
>>
>> I may have forgotten other things, but these are the obvious
>> differences. Again - assuming LiveTV profile is set the same as your
>> recording profile. I keep repeating that because I ran into this  
>> issue
>> a while back and it turned out that I had LiveTV quality set to the
>> max on my PVR-350 and Default set to substantially lower quality.
>
> I would think they would be the same process. How is starting a
> recording, then watching it a few minutes into the recording much
> different than watching a LiveTV recording (or am I missing  
> something)?

In that case, check to make sure your LiveTV profile is set up exactly  
the same as your recording profile. (Third time I've said it and no  
one has responded with "yes, this is exactly the same".)



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