[mythtv-users] Basic requirements (hardware)

[Pete Hartman]

At 01:06 PM 5/31/03 -0300, Jeff C wrote:
>>the thing i don't understand though, is LOWERing the bitrate shouldn't 
>>expose bad disk performance problems.  it /might/ expose insufficient 
>>cpu, but then i would think that my proc usage should go up.  having it 
>>not go up, maybe indicates bus performance problems, but i'm not sure. i 
>>think the most likely candidate is timing problems, but thats what i need 
>>to investigate.
>
>Agreed on disk performance, but who knows...  I am also using my system a 
>lot more so more of the disk is being used - so maybe the seeking around 
>is catching up with me every now and then - not a lot of apps do such high 
>bandwidth continuous reads where you would notice a small thing like some 
>frame/audio synching.  I think having a bigger disk cache would help...


Is it possible that the lower bit rate is skipping frames on the encode 
side?  Not enough bits going through to encode everything?