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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>I have a question concerning the recent changes in LiveTV
around the Ringbuffer. I'm very concerned that without significant hardware
changes on my part I'll not be able to ever upgrade to the newer MythTV
versions. This is based on what I've seen of the changes so far. Let me
explain.</span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>My recordings directory is a raid5 set which isn't the
fastest in the world but can handle two SD recordings just fine - unless it's
syncing. My live tv buffer is a raid0 of a couple disks - VERY fast. Now,
after a power outage my raid5 array takes hours to sync again. That means if
LiveTV is using that raid5 set I'm not watching TV for hours until the
resync is finished. The raid5 set is almost 700gig - not something
cheaply replaced (at least for me).</span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Another thing I'm considering is HD. If I attempt to
vew HD content from my DVB card while streaming it to the raid5 array it can't
really handle it too well - whereas with a separate live tv buffer it wasn't
a problem.</span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Is there any plan to have support for a live tv buffer SEPARATE
from recordings? I know the reason behind putting in this change and I agree
with it, however, I don't see how I can ever upgrade with this in place
as it is.</span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>- Mark.</span></font></p>
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