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

2009-11-18 Thread Lauri Tischler
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 M4N78 PRO ? ___ vdr mailing list vdr@linuxtv.o

[vdr] livebuffer patch improvements suggestions.

2009-11-18 Thread Tommi Lundell
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 active. Example. i change

Re: [vdr] VDR 1.7 and no subtitles with old PES recordings

2009-11-18 Thread jjtt
On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 06:42:28PM +0200, Rolf Ahrenberg wrote: > On Tue, 6 Oct 2009, j...@mbnet.fi wrote: > > > Subtitles are shown corretly both when viewing live tv and > > when viewing new recordings, but when viewing old PES > > recordings VDR just says that no subtitles are available. > > Z

Re: [vdr] livebuffer patch improvements suggestions.

2009-11-18 Thread VDR User
On Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 8:46 AM, 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

Re: [vdr] mdadm software raid5 arrays?

2009-11-18 Thread H. Langos
Hi Alex, 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 setti

Re: [vdr] livebuffer patch improvements suggestions.

2009-11-18 Thread Scott
VDR User wrote: On Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 8:46 AM, 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 c

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

2009-11-18 Thread Artem Makhutov
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 M4N78 PRO

Re: [vdr] livebuffer patch improvements suggestions.

2009-11-18 Thread Gavin Hamill
On Wed, 2009-11-18 at 17:41 +, Scott wrote: > I agree, if the buffer was a configurable FIFO file (location and > size), then the user could choose if the location was on a hard disk > or a RAM disk. I've never used the livebuffer patch - does it add any measurable latency when zapping chan

Re: [vdr] livebuffer patch improvements suggestions.

2009-11-18 Thread Timothy D. Lenz
Wouldn't work very well with HD video. Our locals (ATSC) use 8-13Gb/hour VDR User wrote: On Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 8:46 AM, 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 rec

Re: [vdr] livebuffer patch improvements suggestions.

2009-11-18 Thread VDR User
On Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 11:13 AM, Timothy D. Lenz wrote: > Wouldn't work very well with HD video. Our locals (ATSC) use 8-13Gb/hour > > VDR User wrote: >> >> On Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 8:46 AM, Tommi Lundell wrote: >>> >>> Hello. >>> >>> 1) RAM is cheap now days. Can I use RAM to keep buffer data? >

Re: [vdr] livebuffer patch improvements suggestions.

2009-11-18 Thread Timothy D. Lenz
I just looked and some recordings are smaller now, I have 4 recordings for Castle, all 1 hour and 5-6Gb each 7 Recordings of Eastwick each 1 hour and 5-7Gb 6 recordings of Fringe 1 hour each 6-8Gb Going through a bunch more I find they mostly run 5-8Gb. Those are channels that do 720p where doing