<html><head><style type="text/css"><!-- DIV {margin:0px;} --></style></head><body><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:10pt"><div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><div style="font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; font-size: 12pt;">> In addition to Steve's suggestions, although you may not have<br>> a problem with an SATA drive, you might check with iostat to<br>> see if you have an IOBOUND system.<br>> <br>> It is a generally recommended practice to put the OS and<br>> mySQL database on a separate disk from the one that<br>> contains the recordings in order to spread the IO load. The<br>> OS/mySQL disk can be relatively small -- I have a frontend-<br>> only machine running on an old 8GB disk I had laying around,<br>> but a backend system would be better served with something<br>> larger, say 40-80GB?<br>><br>> HTH.<br>> <br>>
Craig.<br>Thanks for all of the suggestions. If I can get the picture and sound<br>straightened out, I'll buy a big disk for video storage...at least 500GB.<br>I've had a TiVo for 6 or 7 years, and I'm trying to convince the wife<br>that MythTV is better!!<br><br>To answer one of Steve's questions, I am just using the onboard video<br>on the Dell. Since I plan on making that the B/E, I didn't want to spend<br>the $$ on a video card for it. I believe the video and sound problem are<br>in the file, because they play the same on my laptop, the monitor, and I<br>have a D-Link uPnP Media Lounge on my network and it shows up <br>there too.<br><br>I'll work on Steve's suggestions tonight. I also forgot to mention that<br>when I use mplayer /dev/video0, the picture jumps there too, with the B/E<br>shut down. So could that be an ivtv issue?<br><br>Thanks again...<br>Ken<br></div></div></div></body></html>