Does anyone know if there is a way to find out what recordings are scheduled (start/stop times) via a script? I know that you can find the information in WMC, and would have thought it was stored somewhere else too. I am trying to help out a family member that put an Infinitv 4 card in a cheap Llano setup. Each recording takes about 18-22% cpu utilization, so trying to transcode while any recordings are scheduled is out of the question. I am trying to find a way to see if there is downtime (length to be determined by size/number of files) sufficient to allow transcoding the files. I have attempted to offload the files to another box to work on there, but am being forced to do everything on this 1 box.
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Can you not get the transcode to run at a below normal process priority? That way it won't matter when they run because they'll only get whatever CPU is going spare after other processes have taken what they want.
TBH, you should be looking at lowering the priority anyway as transcodes can hog the CPU if run at normal priority and make the PC unresponsive.
I also wouldn't be surprised if the recording processes run at above normal priority by default. I think they do.
TBH, you should be looking at lowering the priority anyway as transcodes can hog the CPU if run at normal priority and make the PC unresponsive.
I also wouldn't be surprised if the recording processes run at above normal priority by default. I think they do.
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I do normally set it to below normal (on mine), but was wondering if there was a better way to do it. As far as making the PC unresponsive, as long as it isn't trying to record anything then responsiveness doesn't matter. No head unit on this thing anyways, so only way to get in is hook up a monitor, or RDP.
As far as the recording processes, did not know about their default priority. Am fairly new to the Ceton world, and still learning all the time.
If I cannot find out, or no one knows how to obtain the information, then I will just set it to low, and pass it off to ffmpeg.
As far as the recording processes, did not know about their default priority. Am fairly new to the Ceton world, and still learning all the time.
If I cannot find out, or no one knows how to obtain the information, then I will just set it to low, and pass it off to ffmpeg.