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Nick Morrott wrote:
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<pre wrap="">On 26/05/07, Jake Vickers <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:jake@v2gnu.com"><jake@v2gnu.com></a> wrote:
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<pre wrap="">I have a P4, 2.4G Celeron backend, with 1G of RAM, a 160G HD, a PVR-150,
and a PVR-500.
One of my frontends is a Via MII-10000 with a 60G HD. Would there be any
benefit in making this unit a combo fe/be unit, or would it give me
issues with watching TV? Mainly asking out of curiosity rather than any
need of anything.
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Do you do a lot of commflagging or have load/DMA problems when all 3
cards are recording at the same time on your current backend? If not,
I'd recommend keeping your setup as it is. Keeping your capture cards
on a machine that is 'always up' (or has a high uptime) seems more
sensible that scheduling recordings on a slave machine that might not
be online when a recording needs to be made.
I have a slave backend with a capture card used almost entirely for
LiveTV - the master backend takes care of almost 100% of our scheduled
recordings, so it doesn't matter that the slave machine is almost
always turned off (plus I do not use commflagging).
Remember, if it's working, you can probably still break it.
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No, I don't get any DMA probs as of yet. The moon isn't full yet though.<br>
Just wondering if there would be any additional benefit or not. The
frontends are on all the time as well, and I don't do that much
commercial flagging. I record maybe 14-18 shows a week total, all
spread throughout the day. While these do get comm flagged, that job is
usually done 15 minutes or so after the recording.<br>
It's working now - just wanted to know if I should turn the volume up
to 11 or not.<br>
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