On Tuesday 27 December 2005 22:54, Andy Poling wrote: > Jack Lowry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > > I currently have an AMD duron 950 wiht 256 Megs of ram and two pvr 250s. > > > > I'd like to be able to do realtime commercial flagging on two streams. > > > > Does anybody have any suggestions as to how much how much horsepower is > > required to hit this target? > > > > I also have a AMD Athalon 2200 XP+ that's currently my workstation that > > I could move to the Myth box > > and buy a new motherboad/CPU for my workstation. > > There's an even easier solution, IMHO. I wanted to use the horsepower of a > couple of pretty powerful workstations for commercial flagging, so I made > them slave backends with the master backend mounted via NFS and with no > tuners, set their job search interval at a fraction of the master backend, > and set their job limit at 2 and the master backend's job limit at 1 (I > also used 0 for a while to disable it completely). > > The upshot of this is that these slave backends end up doing all the > commercial flagging instead of the master backend. > > To also partially answer your question, my athlonxp 2400+ workstation seems > to be able to easily do realtime commercial flagging on at least one sdtv > show (from a pvr250 at high capture res) at once. My second input is an > hdtv card and the demands of flagging hdtv are much higher, of course, so I > can't really tell you if it could do two sdtv shows at once. > > -Andy
I just set up my "spare" computer to do all my commercial flagging as a slave backend, works great. The bonus is when I need to use its CPU for somehting I can shutdown the slave backend and the cpu is free until I start it up again. -- Steve _______________________________________________ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users