[mythtv] encoding vs decoding

[Joseph A. Caputo]

On Monday 13 October 2003 07:33 pm, Michael J. Hammel wrote:
> On Mon, 2003-10-13 at 09:29, Joseph A. Caputo wrote:
> > If you have a PVR-250 (which I'd guess you don't), you can encode with a 
> > Celeron-450, as it won't require much/any CPU to encode.  But then you'll 
> > still be pushing that machine really hard to try and play back the 
recorded 
> > MPEG-2 stream.
> 
> I have a Celeron 560MHz with a WinTV PVR 250 installed.  Recording seems
> to work, but there are situations that cause the system to start
> thrashing on the hard disk.  I'm trying to figure out what those
> situations are - I currently think it may be a hard disk "percent
> filled" issue and may be correctable with proper tuning of MythTV
> recording options.  I only have a 30GB disk right now.  That seems to
> hold about 6 1/2 shows and 3 one hour shows and leave me about 1/3 of
> the disk clear for other stuff.  If I add a 2 hour movie to that, the
> disk fills to >90% and that's when disk thrashing seems to start.


Ah, I see... you might want to change your "New Recording Free Disk Space 
Threshold" in Setup->TV Settings->General so that new recordings won't start 
if there are less than <X> megabytes free.

-JAC