[mythtv] Shouldn't MythTV disable the tuner between switching inputs?

Daniel Kristjansson danielk at cuymedia.net
Mon Jan 7 13:48:02 UTC 2008


On Sun, 2008-01-06 at 15:39 -0800, Sam Logen wrote:

> > Turning off the tuner would
> > introduce a channel
> > > changing delay for all MPEG-2 recording cards
> 
> What kind of delay are we talking about?  When I used
> the ivtv utility to disable the tuner, it took less
> than a second.  Granted that you'd have to adapt the
> code to be hardware independent.  Can we test the code
> to see just what kind of delay we are talking about,
> and if it is worth it or not?

If it is needed we'll add it, but basically adding any
delay to channel changing is undesirable as people
already complain about channel changing taking to long.
One second is an eternity if you are channel flipping.
If this is only needed on input changes this is a bit
better.

-- Daniel



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