Duncan Webb wrote:
Elizabeth Dodd wrote:
On Fri, 30 Jan 2009, Duncan Webb wrote:
Elizabeth Dodd wrote:
the Celeron processor just didn't have enough grunt to run the dvb-t
stream and recording
so i'm back using the quad core with loads of RAM to run the tv
Now, after some fiddling, the standard mplayer command does record for me
VCR_CMD = CONF.mplayer
+ ' -dumpstream -dumpfile %(filename)s "dvb://%(channel)s"'
TV_RECORD_FILE_SUFFIX = '.ts'
and I suspect the previous problem was a crash related to not enough cpu
and ram.
I don't think you need much RAM or CPU to record .ts streams. Certainly
with the IVTV driver (a .ps stream) the CPU usage while recording is 3%
on my P3.
You should ssh to the box and run "top" to see what is happening while
recording, you should see the amount of RAM and the CPU usage for mplayer.
Duncan
while it is not in use now, nothing happened.
I watched top carefully and mplayer died so fast I didn't usually see it
appear.
This where DEBUG_CHILDAPP comes in handy as it saves the output of
mplayer to a pair of log files, you can then examine the log files and
see what the error is.
Duncan
Slightly off point but I find htop much better than top. You'll be able
to see i/o load.
John
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