[mythtv-users] suspend and resume mythcommflag

[Tim Scholl]

On Thu, May 15, 2008 at 2:47 PM, James Klaas <jklaas at appalachian.dyndns.org>
wrote:

> I have a backend and frontend/backend setup running 0.21 running on Ubuntu.
>
> My problem is that if I'm trying to watch liveTV or if something is
> recording in the background, the video gets really choppy when
> mythcommflag is running.  It's much worse when mythcommflag is running
> on the frontend.  Rather than dedicate a computer for the task, I
> think it would be much better if I could suspend and resume
> mythcommflag (via SIGSTOP and SIGCONT signals) when mythtv recognizes
> that liveTV or a recording is happening.
>
> I think a lot of the choppyness is coming from extensive disk access
> when one or two recorders are going at once, plus mythcommflag
> running.
>
> Is there any way to do this?
>
> James


Yes there is a way to do this.  Check out this link.  The script works
great.

http://mysettopbox.tv/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=16027&highlight=pausecommflag

Tim
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