Timeshift still always on in TV Server? (2 Viewers)

[OgdenP]

flash has a limited lifetime for writing to it, especially compared to harddisk usage. I read somewhere this was the main disadvantage to flash-harddisks.

Yes it has a limited lifetime, but so does a hard disk. The Mean Time Before Failure (MTBF) for current flash drives is very similar to that of a hard disk drive (if not better). You can effectively ignore this limitation.

 

[deischi]

A point back to the original issue.

I also don't see any disadvantages so why would you want it turned off?

I see a different disadvantage with timeshift turned on: The time to change channels is much higher.
With TVE2 and timeshift disabled I can change channels with almost no delay. With timeshift enabled it takes 1 or 2 seconds at least to change channels.

What I remember from other PVRs is that one can optimize to get the channel change time down also when using timeshift - maybe there are already some options in MP I don't know. And what I have seen from some requests in this forms is to do some cosmetics on the transition. From a psychological point of view a smooth "changing channel" screen taking two seconds might be better than a stuttering garbage of one second.

 

[tourettes]

A point back to the original issue.

I also don't see any disadvantages so why would you want it turned off?

I see a different disadvantage with timeshift turned on: The time to change channels is much higher.
With TVE2 and timeshift disabled I can change channels with almost no delay. With timeshift enabled it takes 1 or 2 seconds at least to change channels.

That 1-2- second delay must be coming form something else than the timeshifting as many of us are seeing almost instant channel change times on the tve3.

 

[pmcguire]

Back to the RAMdisk issue, if my HTPC has 3 gigs of RAM and I want to dedicate 1024mb to the TS files only. What are the optimal settings? I have tried using the RAMdisk earlier but I just ran into lockups and wierd issues (even more than normal LOL)

Any ideas?

 

[CommGuru]

In TVE3's current state in regards to the doesn't stop recording/timeshifting bug, I don't think using the ram disk for timeshifting is a good idea. I have a 1 gb ramdisk that I run MP and SQL on but leave the timeshifting to a regular HD and it works quite well.

 

[hansdegit]

I don't see why you would want to run a caching database server on a ramdisk.