[mythtv-users] Fastest file system

[Brian J. Murrell]

On Fri, 2005-09-09 at 14:56 -0700, Blake wrote:
> On Fri, 09 Sep 2005 14:42:10 -0700, Brandon Beattie  
> <brandon+myth at linuxis.us> wrote:
> 
> > In the SLC Utah area there are 11 HDTV channels, and 18 unique
> > programs on at once, broadcasted free OTA.  The PBS channels have 8
> > unique broadcasts alone and I watch quite a bit of PBS.  Monday's,
> > Tuesday, Thursdays and Sundays I'm often recording 3-4 shows at once.
> 
> Just--wow. And you managed this on an AMD 2500?

It's digital -- already encoded.  It's really nothing more than just 3-4
instances of:

$ cat < /dev/hdtv_device >file.mpg

in parallel.  Even if one stream was 5Mb/s, that is only 640KB/s.  Not
really that intensive.  Even my single 80G ATA drive gets ~15MB/s

b.

-- 
My other computer is your Microsoft Windows server.

Brian J. Murrell
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