[mythtv-users] MythTV questions...

Dex West dexwest at yahoo.com
Wed Apr 7 13:09:06 EDT 2004


I can only answer #2 by saying search through the
archives for a subject "Assorted questions from a new
user" and specificially a reply from
wwexell at heidewexell.net.

I give some use cases for frontend/backend that help
me a lot.

I'll let everyone else answer the rest for you.
--- John Sutherland <garion at twcny.rr.com> wrote:
> Hi guys/gals..
> 
> I just setup and got working a basic mythtv box, and
> I have some questions..
> 
> First, a little about the system it its on.. I'm
> using this box more of a
> proof of concept for myself.. It is a Pentium II
> 400Mhz, 128M, PVR-350,
> and a "broken" 40G drive.. By "broken" I mean that I
> can not get more than
> 2M/sec rates from hdparm -t.. The drive works, its
> just slow... I'm using
> the 350's TV-Out, and for a distrib, Gentoo...
> 
> Now for the questions...
> 
> 1) I've noticed that channel changing is
> ---slow---.. Nearly 30 secs to
> change the channel... I'm assuming its either the
> slow drive, or the slow
> processor.. Which do you think it is?
> 
> 2) What is the difference between the frontend and
> the backend? I haven't
> seen a good description of what both of them really
> do... Does the backend
> do the storage?? If I move my backend to another
> (much faster) machine,
> would that solve the channel changing slowness??
> 
> 3) When using the TV-out on the 350, how's it really
> work? Does it read
> the input from the tuner, then store it to disk,
> then read it, and send it
> to the tv-out? (kinda related to the previous
> question I guess)
> 
> 4) Has anyone coded up a burner plugin? To burn
> DVD's, VCD's from recorded
> video? Or even music? If not, I might consider
> writing one..
> 
> Thanks guys/gals!
> 
> --John
> -- 
> --John
> 
> 
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