From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1M6T0t-0007vL-Ma for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 19 May 2009 17:22:05 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id DC592E030D; Tue, 19 May 2009 17:22:01 +0000 (UTC) Received: from yx-out-1718.google.com (yx-out-1718.google.com [74.125.44.156]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BA846E030D for ; Tue, 19 May 2009 17:22:01 +0000 (UTC) Received: by yx-out-1718.google.com with SMTP id 36so12634449yxh.46 for ; Tue, 19 May 2009 10:22:01 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:subject:from:to:in-reply-to :references:content-type:date:message-id:mime-version:x-mailer :content-transfer-encoding; bh=lygoVEMFZUuxAThYmrQSaRYq/+inNB6JQELbxPJRrbk=; b=RVmIjxYPDp0Rq621LhcxRODys1veZc2hfYe8MtZ0WQN1CynNIeDZQ35iZqN9kgYO36 E2TcCNU2Dd7Gv9bjPo2LCcG4/zbxq61RjCnkwWTiOR5tJKC1u+JQx7rdvH+ywOVdFJGN 1umpqS/G9k9xzfB4rQuSqPvX/19lkvWm+llZ8= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=subject:from:to:in-reply-to:references:content-type:date:message-id :mime-version:x-mailer:content-transfer-encoding; b=kDEPz4V35gpEggst2Q85zY2hp1nVizmmhQ7aci6CGYLYeLb1RDaI0vQERCr/cFMFsX FeiLnB3+82Yk9gkiXSXkbujNISKNmG7tarP2E8RZhD4RxXYd6i1UJ0UrtQ3zcdUYKlwA HzYJnIyxvDIyH5GScG2sNIGWSpyNkqb4Ndvb8= Received: by 10.90.99.6 with SMTP id w6mr189969agb.118.1242753721330; Tue, 19 May 2009 10:22:01 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ?192.168.1.3? (adsl-70-234-134-212.dsl.tul2ok.sbcglobal.net [70.234.134.212]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id 6sm304742agb.68.2009.05.19.10.22.00 (version=SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Tue, 19 May 2009 10:22:00 -0700 (PDT) Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] MythTV backend on non-dedicated machine? From: Michael Sullivan To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org In-Reply-To: References: Content-Type: text/plain Date: Tue, 19 May 2009 12:21:58 -0500 Message-Id: <1242753718.18610.3.camel@camille.espersunited.com> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.24.5 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: f3cc203e-6bf8-4db8-82e6-2f14f110a746 X-Archives-Hash: 06c1a87dc409215eb50daf3e283537b3 On Tue, 2009-05-19 at 17:04 +0000, Grant Edwards wrote: > Does anybody have any experience with running a MythTV backend > on a non-dedicated machine (a machine that's also used for > software development, web-browsing, e-mail, etc.)? > > All of the info I find about "split" MythTV systems implies > that the backend is a dedicated MythTV server. It seems like a > waste to have both a backend server and my normal "desktop" > machine running all the time -- both 99% idle. > > My tuner is a network-attached HDHR, so the backend isn't doing > any real-time encoding. All it needs to to is shovel bytes > between the network interface and the disk. I do plan on > having a dedicated drive for MythTV recordings. > My MythTV setup has its own external 1TB drive for recordings, but it runs on my desktop machine. My tuner is a Hauppage WinTV PVR-250. Since I got the external drive for myth I can run other programs on the machine at the same time that Myth is recording, and it doesn't lose information in the recordings anymore. Recordings used to be skippy before I got the external drive, but now it works great. What did you want to know?