[mythtv-users] liveTV sucking up CPU cycles?

[James Armstrong]

>>
>>
>> It would be nice to track down the issue, though, as playing LiveTV
>> vs a
>> recording (in progress or not) should behave the same.  Now that
>> I've got a
>> somewhat workable test system, I can help with some testing.
>
> If both the LiveTV and Default (or whatever you're using) recording
> profile are set exactly the same, watching LiveTV uses extra  
> resources:
> 1. It's recording the file and playing it back which may be difficult
> in some file systems
> 2. It's inserting information into recordedseek while it's recording
>
> I may have forgotten other things, but these are the obvious
> differences. Again - assuming LiveTV profile is set the same as your
> recording profile. I keep repeating that because I ran into this issue
> a while back and it turned out that I had LiveTV quality set to the
> max on my PVR-350 and Default set to substantially lower quality.

I would think they would be the same process. How is starting a  
recording, then watching it a few minutes into the recording much  
different than watching a LiveTV recording (or am I missing something)?

- James