Mark Clarkstone wrote:
> Wim K wrote:
> > Mark,
> >
> > With my limited knowledge of linux, I couldn't get the programs in the link going. Maybe you have another link for me, please?
>
> I don't unfortunately :(
>
I'm trying wireshark now.
> >
> > Yesterday I tried 2 simultaneous sd recordings, that failed. I don't know what's different today, but it didn't crash tvheadend today.
>
> One last thing you can try is setting the DVR profile "stream profile" to mkv (or pass if it's already set to mkv) and "Cache scheme" to don't keep.
>
I read the help pages for "cache scheme":
"Don't keep: Tell the system that you’re not expecting to re-use the data soon, so don’t keep it in cache. The data will still be buffered for writing. Useful e.g. in a RAM-limited system like a Pi (given that you’re unlikely to be watching while recording, so data can be discarded now and read back from disc later)."
I guess this means that when you have a Pi, you should know you shouldn't watch delayed? I didn't know it would keep the buffer in ram.
I was just about to test, and this confirms that this may be the problem, watching 1 recording with a delay (start playing the recording, press pause, put the kids to bed and than press play) and the other just recording. That was what happened 3 fridays evenings in a row.
Would that not be possible with cache scheme "Don't keep"? Wouldn't tvheadend read it from external harddrive again?
> > I'll report back about that.
> >
> > Wim
>
> If changing the profile as suggested doesn't work you may want to get a device with a giga Ethernet & more than one USB bus.
That's why I was thinking banana pi.
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> Out of interest, can you actually play 3 streams at the same time without issue? Or is it just recording?
I'm going to test a bit more. Will let you know. Much easier to do with a monitor-program, so I'll try to do that first.