[mythtv-users] ionice transcodes

[Mark Perkins]

> On 3 Jun 2015, at 10:31 pm, "Anthony Giggins" <seven at seven.dorksville.net> wrote:
> 
> is there any way to resure and transcode jobs are launched with ionice -c3 ? 
> or is there and equivelent of the slow delete option for transcoding jobs?
> 
> I'm finding if I have a heep of transcode jobs queued (Max 2 running jobs) that system load goes through the roof.
> 
> I'm just using the inbuilt lossless transcoding for my recordings from my DVB-T HDHR, I'd rather not have to resort to a script as I'm pretty much out of free userjobs :(
> 
> otherwise I guess I could cron a task to ionice any running transcode processes every minute....
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Anthony
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IIRC the transcode command line is on one of the mythtv-setup general pages. Just add your preferred combination of nice and ionice commands in front of it I assume?