"Simon Baxter" writes:
> Anyway, I've bought 3x 1.5 TB SATA disks which I'd like to put into a
> software (mdadm) raid 5 array.
[...]
> But does anyone have any production VDR experience with mdadm - good or bad?
If you like good performance and simple recovery, then do not use
RAID5. Use RAID
But does anyone have any production VDR experience with mdadm - good or
bad?
I've now tested and implemented RAID5 on my system. The biggest CPU hit is
still with the OSD or noad processes - below is a bunch of tests I ran and
the top processes during the test:
1 recording to raid, watching
I wouldn't bother upgrading, to be honest.
I've had several attempts to upgrade to 1.7 and VDPAU - but consistently
get audio/video sync problems with live video and issues with indexing
during rewinding/forwarding during playback. Have spent more hours than I
care to say trying to fix this,
On Thu, Dec 3, 2009 at 10:44 AM, Simon Baxter wrote:
> To be fair to my comment above, I've had audio sync problems with live TV on
> all versions above vdr-xine-0.8.0 which is why I've never been able to run a
> newer version in production. I've had several posts on this and tried
> everything a