Raphael Pooser wrote: > Gavin Haslett wrote: > >> I was reading the change list published for the upcoming 0.19 upgrade and a >> few things occurred to me; >> >> 1. For the new LiveTV improvements, will it be possible to set the >> expiration of LiveTV recordings to, say, 4 hours? I know expiration is >> currently done on a daily basis, but to be honest I can't think of a single >> time when I'd want to retain a LiveTV recording for mor than 4 hours or so. >> >> 2. Any thoughts on adding a checkbox to use "classic mode" LiveTV instead of >> the new version? I did a quick test on the SVN version about two weeks ago, >> and found that my disk subsystem was thrashing a lot more frequently than >> with 0.18. I presumed this was due to the LiveTV changes that occurred. Of >> course, this might just be my second Linux install on the box :) >> >> 3. Didn't get a chance to test this... but how well does XvMC work with the >> OSD and deinterlace? I know this is a bad combination in 0.18, but my video >> looks SOOO much better with kernel deint turned on, and it's a lot smoother >> with XvMC, so currently I just live with flickery OSD. >> >> Anyway, just brainfarts... it's too early in the AM (and pre-coffee) for any >> truly coherent thought :) >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> >> _______________________________________________ >> mythtv-users mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users >> >> > Actually my question is, is mythtv now going to become more hardware > intensive, just to do SD? The hard disk thrashing question frightens > me, because right now I get by with 512MB of RAM, _no_ swap, and my hard > drive set to the lowest performance level/highest acm level so that it > is completely silent. I don't want hard drive performance to need to > become a factor when watching TV.... Can anyone shed some light on this? > I suppose I can always hold back from upgrading, but it looks like .19.1 > may solve a lot of problems, well more like little glitches really. > Raphael > I have no performance issues running SVN compared to 0.18. In fact, for many things, it is faster. I wouldn't consider one person's experience to be necessarily indicative of the release.
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