On Friday 23 May 2008 10:00:06 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> This one time, at band camp, Kyle wrote:
> > errrrrr ................ GULP!!!!!!!
> >
> > Ok! <he says meekly>
> >
> > Thanks. I'll just walk before I go for the Olympics I think.
>
> For the record, if you're recording DVB-t, you really don't need much
> CPU grunt in either the back-end or front-end. All it's doing is
> pulling the appropriate stream our of what's coming down the antenna and
> spooling it off to disk. There's no transcoding or anything involved.
>
> If you want to do ad detection on the commercial channels, that might
> need some CPU power, though in my experience it's the disk thrashing
> that's more of an issue.
>
> In standard definition, MPEG decoder hardware means the CPU can be
> pretty puny on the front-end.
>
> Seriously, spend your money on disks -- which are cheap too (<$300/TB
> these days). I find with free-to-air only and my viewing habits, about
> 600 gigs is plenty, and there's still loads of stuff I never get around
> to. I probably watch at most 6 hours of telly a week though, so perhaps
> I'm not typical? The beauty of MythTV, though, is that it's all
> thriller, no filler. No ads either.
Kyle you can certainly start playing with very modest hardware!
Has anybody got reasonable results with the ad-detection ?
I find Channel 7 keeps breaking the system so badly that 50% is unusable.
[eg black screen in mid movie triggers ad detection]
I even set ad-duration to 300 secs to try to avoid
movie|ad ad|movie|ad ad|movie just omitting
^^^^
entirely.
10 is probably the best, but still so bad that I don't use it.
I've tried each and all ad-detection algorithms.
My antenna is a bit iffy, maybe that is to blame ?
Watch performance is a squeek or a block of pixels say once / hour.
James
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