[mythtv-users] BBC One HD to start in test at least on 3rd November.

[Paul Gray]

On 20/10/2010 14:29, Robert Longbottom wrote:
> I'll shout out from the 1 disk camp. I run a combined be / fe system on a single 1tb disk. Thats os, database, and recordings all going to the same disk ( but different partitions ). I can easily record BBC hd and itv hd from freesat at the same time and watch one of them as well.
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> At the weekend I was doing some testing with a new tuner card and actually had BBC hd and itv hd recording outside of myth (just cat>  somefile.mpg) and the two copies of vlc running playing back those files at the same time all on the same system.
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> Recording multiple sd channels 4+ with multirec and watching one works fine as well.
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> It's always seemed odd to me how much fuss people make about needing multiple disks. Sure it will be better, but I don't see it as necessary, not from my experience anyway. I do an auto lossless transcode on all my recordings, but I don't do comflagging so maybe that makes a difference.
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> This is as couple of year old quad core with 4gb ram which also runs a web server, mail server, squeezebox server and a windows vm with some lightweight duties. I get the odd wait, but noting that interrupts my viewing or recording. The disk is just an off the shelf western digital green sata drive from memory.
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> I'd say try it with one disk, you can always add more later....

Thanks. Definitely sounds like I should at least try out having just
the one. Anything special you do with partitions? Or is it just keeping
OS separate from data?

Cheers,
	Paul.