You could give the bttv card a higher priority than the pvrs so as to make sure that there is a pvr free for livetv, but I don't see how that would help, as you're still encoding and decoding at the same time, and unless you have a hardware decoder for the mpeg2 (like a 350,) I believe that mpeg4 takes less proc power to decode.
If you're box can't do livetv on the bttv card, it most likely can't do livetv while *using* the bttv card either. If there are really three things you want to watch at once, you may have to wait till some of em finish. Also, if I were you, I'd set the pvr cards at a higher priority anyways, since they should have a bit higher quality, in addition to not pegging your processor. -Nate On Fri, 17 Dec 2004 10:26:39 -0400, Mark J. Small <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi everybody, > > Let's say I have 3 tuners, 2 pvr250's and 1 other (say a bt878). > > Is there a way to disable livetv for the 878? I would use this tuner only for > recording for future watching. This could make life easier, since software > encoding/decoding would probably overtax my box. > > I suppose this would make things rather complicated if I were already > recording something on the 2 pvr's and then wanted to watch livetv, wouldn't > it? > > Mark > > > _______________________________________________ > mythtv-users mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users > > >
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