[mythtv-users] HD noise and PVR250

[Maarten B]

> The silent enclosure would be ideal. However I have a shuttle system
> which doesn't accomodate an enclosure of this size (unless I get rid of
>  my dvd drive--not really an option).
> Any other ideas out there? I'm really curious to know if people think
> that hardware encoding might cut down (at least a little) on disk
> writes.

I don't think so. My understanding is, the native mpeg4 encoding yields
the smallest files, even smaller than the mpeg2 that hardware cards push
out.So in practice, it makes no difference. In theory it might even be
slightly worse writing mpeg2.If I'm not misinformed, that is...

Maarten


> Dave Packham wrote:
>
>>this will help the most
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>>http://www.quietpcusa.com/acb/showdetl.cfm?&DID=8&Product_ID=1&CATID=1
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>>SilentDrive enclosures
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>>WAY Quiet
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>>Dave P
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>>>>>omar at karidia.com 5/17/2004 7:55:18 AM >>>
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>>>>>
>>My system is up and running really well--thanks to everyone involved.
>>My
>>only "complaint" is that my HD makes LOTS of noise. I don't want to
>>change the HD/case, and all the video files are on an ext3 partition
>>with the fewest possible inodes (-T largefile4) for whatever that may
>>be
>>worth. (For the record, my impression is that there are now
>>less/smoother disk writes under ext3 than when I was using reiserfs,
>>but
>>any difference is minor.)
>>
>>However I was thinking--for other reasons as well--of switching my
>>current hauppage wintv go with a pvr250. Does anyone think this will
>>help with disk writes? I assume all that disk activity is just the
>>writing of large files, but maybe there is some memory management stuff
>>
>>going on as well. Any thoughts/opinions??
>>
>>Thanks
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