[mythtv-users] Buffer file not rolling

Joseph A. Caputo jcaputo1 at comcast.net
Fri Oct 7 19:44:42 UTC 2005


On Friday 07 October 2005 14:03, Peter Darley wrote:
> 
> On Oct 7, 2005, at 10:09 AM, Dave Sherohman wrote:
> 
> > On Fri, Oct 07, 2005 at 09:56:37AM -0700, Peter Darley wrote:
> >>
> >> Ok, this has me confused.  I thought that the ringbuffer was on the
> >> frontend?  If so, this implies that the ringbuffer needs to be the
> >> same size on all front ends?
> >>
> >
> 
> So, does every backend have a ringbuffer for each of its tuners, or  
> are they all on the master backend?  Is there a doc somewhere that  
> goes over this?

Each backend has a ringbuffer; not sure if it's per-tuner or not.

Also, I think the entire ringbuffer concept is going away Real Soon Now 
once Isaac finishes his re-working of LiveTV.  Neat features are coming 
like channel-change history and retro-active recording of LIveTV.

-JAC


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