[mythtv-users] OT: Just for fun - place your bets - 4XHD HDHR recording

Jason Weida jason.m.weida at gmail.com
Tue Jan 5 13:34:26 UTC 2010


11 hours ago and no update?  Must have crashed his system so he can't send
an email.

;-)

On Tue, Jan 5, 2010 at 7:00 AM, David Herman <dherman516 at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Mon, Jan 4, 2010 at 6:02 PM, Dave Richardson <mythtv[at]derdev.com>
> wrote:
> > Since the list's tone has been a little cranky lately, I thought I'd have
>
> > fun with my system tonight.
> >
> > In one hour from now, I'm going to simultaneously capture 4 HD QAM
> streams
> > using two 2-tuner HDHomeruns to a single backend. �(ABC, NBC, CBS, FOX -
> > one hour segments)
> >
> > Place your bets, will I ...
> >
> > 1) Crash the backend ugly (I took a database backup)
> > 2) Get Mangled recordings (1 or more, sync issues, whatever)
> > 3) Perfection - all recordings are ok.
> >
>
> I have a similar setup (but I also have a HDPVR). I had to have to
> distribute the IO better in order to handle it. I have 3 mounted TB drives
> (7200RPM) that I use  for recordings only.
> My Backend also has a Q6600 with 2GB of RAM. It could handle 4 HD Homerun
> recodings plus the HDPVR, but any recording playback off my backend would
> cause #2 to happen (This is purely an IO issue).
>
> Dave
>
>
> --
> --Dave
>
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