[mythtv-users] Limit concurrent instances of mythpreviewgen?

[Michael T. Dean]

On 05/13/2014 06:04 PM, Mike Perkins wrote:
> On 13/05/14 20:16, Michael T. Dean wrote:
>> The best bet for the OP is to set up his MythWeb to page the 
>> recordings so that
>> his incapable backend can squeak by.  Change the "Page recorded 
>> programs" from
>> "Off" to 25.
>>
> I would be content if there was a method to change preview generation 
> to "off". As I may have mentioned before, I find them of no use whatever.
>

If that's the case, disable showing pixmaps for the Recorded Programs 
view of MythWeb in MythWeb settings.

As others have said, creating a single, small preview at the end of 
recording/commercial detection/transcoding isn't much of a resource 
drain, so we always do that so a "default" preview is available, and 
there's no need for a setting to disable this.  It only becomes a 
problem when something like MythWeb decides to show you all of your 
recordings and creates new, differently-sized previews for each and your 
backend(s) can't keep up with the requests.  So, if you find them of no 
use whatever, tell MythWeb not to show them.

Mike