[mythtv] How does mythtv decide which backend does the recording?

Joel Melohn jlmelohn at jcsm.com
Mon Jul 21 08:28:04 EDT 2003


The minimum free space checking sounds like a good enhancement.

Is there any way to use capture card hardware characteristics, such as
stereo vs. mono, to determine which backend is used to do the recording?
That way, a cheaper capture card could be used to record programs for which
you do not care about having stereo and you could insure that the stereo
capture card was used for programs such as a music video etc.

This would probably need a user provided parameter when the program is
scheduled. (possibly mono, stereo, or don't care, with a user configurable
default).

Joel

-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:mythtv-dev-bounces at snowman.net]On Behalf Of cmisip
Sent: Monday, July 21, 2003 12:04 AM
To: Development of mythtv
Subject: Re: [mythtv] How does mythtv decide which backend does the
recording?


I think a configurable option sounds great.  Can you also add the option
for a backend encoder to save to a remote storage when local storage is
used up?  I have two tv cards on my master backend and one on the slave
backend.  I wonder if it is possible for at least one of the master
backend cards to record to the slave backend storage when its local
storage is used up.  This can be set on a per card basis because I dont
think any system is beefy enough to do three simultaneous recordings
because of disk i/o issues and stuff.  Thanks.

On Fri, 2003-07-18 at 22:24, Chris Pinkham wrote:
> Heh. :)  Had meant to post a notice about this before I went out for
dinner
> tonight but forgot.  The hard-limit is set at 250 Megs right now so Myth
> should stop scheduling new recordings on a backend if the backend's free
> disk space goes below this limit.  I'm debating making this a configurable
> option which would probably make more sense to some people.
>
> > On Friday 18 July 2003 08:30 pm, cmisip wrote:
> > > Thanks a lot.  Looking forward to when this makes it to cvs.
> >
> > Changes committed by cpinkham on Fri Jul 18 17:23:26 2003
> > <snip>
> > Added better to scheduler.  Now scheduler will
> > use backend free space as a factor in scheduling which shows get
recorded
> > on which backends.  If a backend's free space goes below the minimum,
then
> > no new recordings will be scheduled on that backend.
> >
>
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> > It's in there.
> >
> > Isaac
>
> Chris
>
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