Concurrent DVD burning

[stevech]

The answer is probably no.

The question is: Is it viable to run software that does MPEG to DVD and DVD burning at the same time that Sage is trying to record (USB2 encoder)? This is CPU intensive (AMD 2400) and the DVD drive is PCI bus and tends to bog down task scheduling (ever notice the delays in keyboard/mouse events while I/Oing to a DVD?)

I'm trying to figure out a way to off-load some videos that we want to keep. Maybe take them as mpegs on DVD? This isn't CPU intensive but the PCI bus loading issue remains.

[DynamoBen]

I have two PVR250 cards and have burned a DVD with nero while recording two shows. It wasn't an issue.

[ben_95sl1]

Usually, it's very difficult to affect the recording of a show; it's much more likely you'll have playback problems (this is why hardware mpeg2 cards are awesome). This may be different for HDTV though.

I and others have done many more cpu intensive things and never had issues; such as encoding while burning; and still no problems with playback, let alone the recording. However, setting priorities for each process really helps here. I could see potentially having hard drive access issues if burning at 16x while transferring another file over gigabit, but I don't push it that much (I usually do 4x or 8x), and I wouldn't be surprised if it was still fine.

Basically, you shouldn't have to worry about it.

[stevech]

Know where I can read about what SageTV does to route the on-screen menus to the TV-out port of cards like the '350?

I've read that some people have problems or get confused on how to setup this.