[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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