[mythtv] Profiling myth

[Martin Ritchie]

On 31 May 2010 15:56, Stuart Morgan <stuart at tase.co.uk> wrote:
> On Monday 31 May 2010 15:31:36 James Courtier-Dutton wrote:
>> ... or are you just telling me not to even bother?
>>
>
> I'd welcome you to try and improve the speed, I just want to manage the
> expectations. Every few months someone comes along with lots of enthusiasm for
> improving it and every time the changes they end up making are slight or non-
> existent because the vast array of hardware, configurations, broadcasters,
> network configurations and more just make it an extremely difficult task.
>
> Many of the buffers you are talking about didn't start off the size that they
> are now, they've grown and grown in response to user experience. Adaptive
> buffering was even added to try overcome this, but even the defaults for that
> were arrived at over months/years of experimentation. Every time a few hundred
> ms is shaved off it ends up being put back on again because it causes
> regressions for someone.
>
> MythTV is too frequently compared against a STB, but that's a fallacy. It's
> very easy to tune things to that extent when you eliminate all the variables
> such as hardware (including speed), broadcaster idiosyncrasies and network
> latencies and reliability.
>
> So please go ahead and we wish you the best of luck, but if you receive a
> lukewarm response from the developers then you'll understand that it's because
> we've been through this many, many times already. You might as well be telling
> us that this time next year we'll all be living on the moon.
> --
> Stuart Morgan
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