[mythtv] [PATCH] external channel changing

Curtis Wood curtis at penguinbrat.com
Sun Dec 21 14:22:43 EST 2003


  Ignore this patch, Im going to work on another one that talks directly
to the lircd/remoted device. I've tested it out, and is much faster than
the perl scripts out there using rc/irsend...

On Sun, 2003-12-21 at 12:00, Curtis Wood wrote:
>    I made a patch to MythTV for smoother channel changing when using an
> external app. Originally it was forking the app off into the background,
> waiting for it to exit (really no waiting) and then going back to normal
> operation - this made the changing channels really sloppy. I modified it
> to keep the app in the foreground, and instead of waiting then and there
> for it to exit, it goes back and cleans it self up on the ringbuffer
> (resting it) and then waits for the app to finish. At first, I simply
> changed the code, from forking the app off off into background to
> keeping in the foreground - it did take a few seconds too long to change
> channels, going this route it cuts that time in half (at least it seems
> so). This method essentially takes the amount of time to change the
> channel, and then unpause the ringbuffer to completely change channels -
> total for me about 1-2 seconds.
> 
> Curtis
> 
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