[gentoo-user] Re: MythTV backend on non-dedicated machine?

[Grant Edwards]

On 2009-05-19, Michael Sullivan <msulli1355@×××××.com> wrote:
> On Tue, 2009-05-19 at 17:04 +0000, Grant Edwards wrote:

>> Does anybody have any experience with running a MythTV backend
>> on a non-dedicated machine (a machine that's also used for
>> software development, web-browsing, e-mail, etc.)?

...

> My MythTV setup has its own external 1TB drive for recordings,
> but it runs on my desktop machine.  My tuner is a Hauppage
> WinTV PVR-250. Since I got the external drive for myth I can
> run other programs on the machine at the same time that Myth
> is recording, and it doesn't lose information in the
> recordings anymore.  Recordings used to be skippy before I got
> the external drive, but now it works great.  What did you want
> to know?

I just wanted to know if anybody was running a MythTV backend
the way you are, and if they had any problems.

Based on your experiences, it sounds like a non-dedicated
machine with a dedicated drive works well enough.  HD data
rates are going to be higher than the PVR-250 (HD is
7-8GB/hour, and my '250 used to be about 1-1.5GB/hour), but
that should still be handled easily enough.

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