Re: [vdr] Recommendation for new hd vdr system.

2009-11-19 Thread Lauri Tischler
Artem Makhutov wrote: Hi, On Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 10:40:38AM +0200, Lauri Tischler wrote: Luca Olivetti wrote: The asus P5N7A-VM motherboard seems a good candidate, is its integrated 9300 graphics powerful enough for good deinterlacing? P5N7A does not have enough slots :( Any comments about

Re: [vdr] mdadm software raid5 arrays?

2009-11-19 Thread Pasi Kärkkäinen
On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 03:34:59PM +, Steve wrote: > Alex Betis wrote: > >I don't record much, so I don't worry about speed. > > While there's no denying that RAID5 *at best* has a write speed > equivalent to about 1.3x a single disk and if you're not careful with > stride/block settings can b

[vdr] Yaepghd record dialog

2009-11-19 Thread Stuart Morris
I have been trying out the yaepghd plugin. It looks very impressive but the record dialog appears to be disabled. Does anyone know if this has been intentionally disabled or is only partially implemented? There has been no development activity on this plugin for about 9 months now. ___

Re: [vdr] mdadm software raid5 arrays?

2009-11-19 Thread Steve
H. Langos wrote: Depending on the amount of RAM, the cache can screw up your results quite badly. For something a little more realistic try: Good point! sync; dd if=/dev/zero of=foo bs=1M count=1024 conv=fsync Interestingly, not much difference: # sync; dd if=/dev/zero of=/srv/test/d

Re: [vdr] mdadm software raid5 arrays?

2009-11-19 Thread Steve
Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote: You should use oflag=direct to make it actually write the file to disk.. And now most probably the file will come from linux kernel cache. Use iflag=direct to read it actually from the disk. However, in the real world data _is_ going to be cached via the kernel ca

Re: [vdr] mdadm software raid5 arrays?

2009-11-19 Thread H. Langos
On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 01:37:46PM +, Steve wrote: > Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote: >> You should use oflag=direct to make it actually write the file to disk.. >> And now most probably the file will come from linux kernel cache. >> Use iflag=direct to read it actually from the disk. >> > > Howev

Re: [vdr] Recommendation for new hd vdr system.

2009-11-19 Thread Artem Makhutov
Hi, On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 10:59:26AM +0200, Lauri Tischler wrote: > Artem Makhutov wrote: >> Hi, >> >> On Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 10:40:38AM +0200, Lauri Tischler wrote: >>> Luca Olivetti wrote: >>> The asus P5N7A-VM motherboard seems a good candidate, is its integrated 9300 graphics po

Re: [vdr] livebuffer patch improvements suggestions.

2009-11-19 Thread Tommi Lundell
Tommi Lundell wrote: Hello. 1) RAM is cheap now days. Can I use RAM to keep buffer data? (System running from USB stick so only reason to start Hard Disk is when i use recordings) 2) Patch only record current channel. It would be nice if i can select channels from lists where buffers are act

Re: [vdr] livebuffer patch improvements suggestions.

2009-11-19 Thread VDR User
On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 10:26 AM, Tommi Lundell wrote: >> 2) Patch only record current channel. It would be nice if i can select >> channels from lists where buffers are active. >> Example. i change channel and noticing that program what i want to look is >> already running so i simply press "jump