[mythtv-users] Transcoding during off hours?
J. Donavan Stanley
jdonavan at jdonavan.net
Thu Feb 5 21:32:41 EST 2004
Ethan McDonald wrote:
> Have any of you ever setup the transcoder so that it would transcode
> to Mpeg 4 at night?
> My transcoder currently tends to lockup my Mythfrontend.
>
> I have an AMD XP 2400+, 512MB of Ram, ATA100 160gb drive - 8meg cache,
> Geforce 4200 and a PVR-250 and 350.
> That's all running under RedHat 9 with KDE for Xwindows.
>
> So the transcoder should run in the background just fine?!
A 2400+ is pretty close to a P4 1.8ghz and I could watch live TV, record
a show on my PVR250, while transcoding a recording without ever noticing
any slowdown at all.
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