[mythtv-users] moving recordings after transcoding

[Patrick Wagstrom]

When using MythTV is it possible to have MythTranscode move a file to a
different storage group after transcoding?

Here's my situation:

I've got a MythTV combo frontend/backend with an HD HomeRun and PVR-250.  It
has two internal drives (320GB each, 1 for boot/os, 1 currently unused), and
a Drobo v1 (USB) with about 1.8TB of disk space.  Currently all recordings
go to the Drobo.  However, on evenings when I record a lot of television and
may have transcoding jobs running, the Drobo sometimes can't keep up.  For
example, last night I had 2xHD streams recording, 1xSD stream recording,
2xHD transcoding (or possibly commercial flagging), and I was watching some
recorded HD content.  This resulted in jitters in the recordings from the HD
Homerun because I over saturated the Drobo.

What I'd like to do is setup MythTV to record to the 320GB internal drive,
which gets a lot better bandwidth, then when I transcode a recording store
the transcoded version on the Drobo.  This way when I'm recording something
it still gets good bandwidth and I don't get the jitters from the drives
being too slow.

Any suggestions on how to go about this?  I've only played a little with the
storage groups, but I didn't see any way that I could tie a transcoder to a
storage group.

Thanks!

--Patrick
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