On 8 January 2016 at 17:23, Dave Liquorice <[email protected]> wrote: > On Fri, 8 Jan 2016 17:06:55 +0000, Colin Law wrote: > >> Why would the files have to be on a USB drive? Why not the SD card? > > Reliabilty? I've "killed" an 8 GB microSD card and an 8 GB USB stick with a > Pi being used as a webcam and producing a time laspe movie. OK one full HD > frame every 30 seconds and rendering those into a roughly 2 min timelapse > every 6 hours is rather high use of "disc" storeage but bothe the card and > stick only lasted a few months before going into "safe" mode. ie you can > still read the contents but not write anything.
That would not be a requirement, merely an advisory if many large files are downloaded. If, for example, one just used it for occasional radio programmes then it would not be an issue at all. Colin _______________________________________________ get_iplayer mailing list [email protected] http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/get_iplayer
