[mythtv-users] what is mythbackend doing when in livetv with pvr250?

[Joseph A. Caputo]

On Tuesday 09 September 2003 05:41 pm, and wrote:
> I've been looking trough the previous posts, but can't find an answer 
> to this so here goes and I apologize if it has already been fully 
> explained.
> 
> On my epia m10k with pvr250 running 720x480 2/3mb I have been wondering 
> what the backend it doing....
> 
> The pvr250 encodes the files into mpeg, but when I run top from an 
> other computer while in livetv it sometimes runs ~20% mythbackend and 
> at other times it runs only 1-2%. Mythfrontend is running 50-70% with 
> de-interlacing and jitter reduction on.
> 
> I was thinking that it might be transcoding.....

Could be the commercial flagging thread that runs after a recording 
finishes...

-JAC