[mythtv-users] Transcoding during off hours?

[J. Donavan Stanley]

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.