[mythtv-users] Playback problem -- random short pauses

Steven Adeff adeffs.mythtv at gmail.com
Thu Sep 29 21:02:16 UTC 2011


On Thu, Sep 29, 2011 at 3:59 PM, Steven Adeff <adeffs.mythtv at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 29, 2011 at 1:09 PM, Dan Wilga
> <mythtv-users2 at dwilga-linux1.amherst.edu> wrote:
>> On 9/29/11 12:18 PM, Mark Boyum wrote:
>>> nice -n 19 mythpreviewgen.real $1 $2 $3 $4 $5 $6 $7 $8
>>>
>> Assuming the shell that runs this script is bash, you can change that
>> last line to:
>>
>>   nice -n 19 mythpreviewgen.real $*
>>
>> That way, any number of parameters will always be passed along.
>>
>> --
>> Dan Wilga                                                        "Ook."
>
> so,
>
> #!/bin/bash
>
> # Script to reduce CPU impact of preview generation at the end of a recording.
> # mv /usr/bin/mythpreviewgen to /usr/bin/mythpreviewgen.real
> # copy this script to /usr/bin/mythpreviewgen and make it executable,
> # chmod 755 /usr/bin/mythpreviewgen
>
> nice -n 19 mythpreviewgen.real $*
>

doesn't work for me,
Preview Error: Encountered problems running '/usr/bin/mythpreviewgen
--size 0x0 --chanid 8901 --starttime 20110928205900 --outfile
"/media/myth/2/tv/8901_20110928205900.mpg.png"  > /dev/null'



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Steve
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