AlexH

I found out what my problem was, I wish I hadn’t wasted the mythtv-users mailing list bandwidth by posting a question… but no one replied so it wasn’t that bad.
I changed my audio device in Setup->General to ALSA:front (was /dev/dsp) and the mixer to default (was /dev/mixer), and also enabled aggressive buffering, and everything worked after that!

So now I’m transcoding all of my MPEG recordings to MPEG4, and this means that I should be able to have tons of shows recorded. With 100GB for the video partition, and high quality shows taking up 750 megs after transcoding, this means I’m able to have about 133 hours of TV at my disposal.

Once Tracy and I have a big enough place, I’m going to put together a RAID server that does SMB and NFS. That will be the central storage server for all of our files, one set of disks will be RAID0 for the TV, the other will be RAID5 for our backups.