[mythtv-users] Backend for fast commercial flagging (HD-PVR recordings)

[Steve Harrington]

>On Mon, Mar 23, 2009 at 11:41:11AM -0400, Steve Harrington wrote:
>>/ Hi all,
/>>/
/>>/ I'm looking to replace my SBE with a machine that can handle real time  /
>>/ (or as close to it as economically feasible) commercial flagging of my  
/>>/ HD-PVR recordings recorded at highest quality.  Has anyone had any  
/>>/ experience with this?  Any suggestions on what to get?
/>>/
/>>/ I was thinking about an AMD Phenom II x4.  Any thoughts on this?
/> 
>     How many jobs are you planning on running concurrently? 
> 
>     If you are interested in jobs finishing as quickly as possible then 
> the get the fastest core speed you can and don't worry so much about 
> getting more cores. Your commflag job is just another client doing playback.
> So think of the box doing the flagging as a machine that should be able to
> play back the recording in software.
>
> [deletia]

I will be doing up to 4 commercial flagging jobs at once, depending on what's on of course.