[sllug-members]: mythtv vs. comcast

[Roger Smith]

>> I found that it is beneficial to have as many cores/processors as
>> possible
<snip>
>> I
>> will say, I never had jitter using a quad core system.
>
> Nor do I have jitter with dual (used to be three) tuners, running
> commercial skip, etc and a single core processor.
>
> As with all things like this, YMMV... :)  I guess I've been getting
> pretty good mileage.

I do believe you. However, from my limited experience with mythtv (< 2
months), it seem that you would really need just the right hardware and
settings along with some very conservative restrictions. If you only have
old hardware, then you will probably figure out a way to make it work with
what you have. It should also really help if you have a video 4 linux
devices and it is properly installed, I have never had that.

I also assume that you are working with digital HD, and want to record
from all two/three tuners at once, most people would. All while
transcoding to mpeg4, and running commercial skip, and decoding an mpeg4
to the TV. I usually want that stuff to run right after it's done being
saved. You most certainly have the system wait until it appears to be
idle.

The type of thing that runs through my head, <no puns> it seems like if I
put my X-wife on this single CPU box, she would certainly find a way to
bring it to it's knees,</no puns> and I just don't want be hearing how
crappy mythtv is for the rest of my life when I could have paid $20 for 2
more cores. Perhaps I am wrong and it is a matter of just tuning the
system. It will take a little more reassurance for me that it's just a
matter of properly tuning the system and not overly restricting it.



> BTW, Hi Roger. :)
>
> Jarom

Hey Jarom! :-)