[mythtv-users] What about an impatient wife ?

[Eric Sharkey]

On Sun, Jan 3, 2010 at 10:27 PM, Robert McNamara
<robert.mcnamara at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 3, 2010 at 7:24 PM, Brent Bolin <brent.bolin at gmail.com> wrote:
>> I usually have four recordings
>> running at the same time from about 7PM-10PM.  She can't wait...
>>
>> So my question is does this screw up recordings when being watched?
>
> If I understand correctly she's watching the recordings as they occur
> (ie, from the "Watch Recordings" menu) in which case nope, that's not
> a problem at all

It's not necessarily a problem.  You need to have sufficient disk I/O
bandwidth and CPU cycles available to keep up with all of this.  If
your machine is so overloaded that it can't read from your tuners fast
enough, you'll start to lose chunks of your programs.

If you have reasonably modern hardware, it shouldn't be a problem.  If
you've stuffed four BTTV cards into a 486 and are doing software
encoding to an external USB hard disk (using a USB 1.1 bus) then your
results may be less than desirable.

Eric