[mythtv-users] Can mythtv handle two dumb capture cards?

J. Donavan Stanley jdonavan at jdonavan.net
Thu Jul 22 09:38:05 EDT 2004


Adam Bown wrote:

>I had exactly the same problem with a single DVB card.  I found that I had a
>weak DVB signal, which was causing myth to log errors.  This logging seemed
>to be what was causing the drain on resources and in turn caused the buffer
>overflows etc. 
>  
>
Myth Doesn't *log* anything it simply prints to stdout / stderr.   If 
you're logging that sort of thing, and your disk / system can't keep up 
then that's a separate issue.    If Myth didn't report errors people 
would be complaining that they weren't given enough information.

>My system got in a sort of downward spiral where the weaker the channels
>signal, the more disk access that was going on and consequently the worse it
>ground to a halt.
>  
>
See above.



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