[mythtv-users] Resolved, mostly: HD Choppy or Jerky

[Hika van den Hoven]

Hoi Dick,

Tuesday, February 4, 2014, 1:57:34 AM, you wrote:

> On 02/03/2014 04:36 PM, Hika van den Hoven wrote:
>> Hoi Dick,
>>
>>
>> I'm looking back at your original post and you describe only one
>> machine. Is that the backend or the frontend and what are the specs of
>> the other.

> That is currently the machine that I plan to use as a combined front end
> and back end -- unless there's a good reason not to. I'm working out the
> issues of setting up MythTV on another machine that I don't plan to be
> the one I use for Myth in the long run.

> The machine that will be running both the front and back end is a Lenovo
> ThinkCentre M58P, specifically a 7483AEU, 2GB RAM, Intel(R) Core(TM)2 
> Duo CPU E8400 @ 3.00GHz, 2 GB of RAM, a 320 GB hard drive, and an eVGA
> (nVidia) GeForce GT-610 video card, feeding a Panasonic TC-42PX14.T 
> Plasma TV.

> The machine I'm testing MythTV on is a Jetway IONTop with an Intel(R) 
> Atom(TM) CPU D525 @ 1.80GHz, with 4 GB of RAM, a 250 GB hard drive, and
> an on-board nvidia GT120[ION] video controller.

>> Especially transcoding on the backend can take up cpu just
>> like decoding on the frontend.

> That sounds like it might be a good idea to run separate machines.

>> You could record cpu and memory usage
>> on both and store it in rrdtool. I could provide you with the script I
>> use for this and temp etc. monitoring.

> Sure. I'd like to give that a try.





Then if you ran both on the same machine, where does netspeed come in?

And about splitting frontend and backend. I started out with both on
one machine. Sometimes the frontend gets unstable needing a reboot. If
the backend is on the same machine recording, you can't and have to
wait, which can be annoying. I moved the backend to my fileserver,
that had surplus in power and is running fulltime anyway.

Tot mails,
  Hika                            mailto:hikavdh at gmail.com

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