[mythtv-users] Multiplexing vs multiple cards

[Douglas Peale]

On 11/04/2010 05:32 AM, Greg Oliver wrote:
> I have found that real-time comm-flagging (up to 6 simultaneous) is a
> lot less intensive on the system than playing catch up.

Do you know if the real-time commercial flagging happens to the stream before it gets written to the disk? If so, it would
explain the performance improvement, eliminating the read from the disk that offline commercial flagging must do.