[mythtv-users] I'm in....
Boyd II, Willy
wboyd at fulbright.com
Fri Nov 14 10:35:08 EST 2003
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Nelson Butterworth [mailto:red_five at charter.net]
>Sent: Friday, November 14, 2003 9:16 AM
>To: Discussion about mythtv
>Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] I'm in....
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>The delay in channel changes while watching live TV is due to the face
>that live TV is cached in a ring buffer, to make it possible to pause
>live TV and do instant replays. 3-5 seconds of live TV is
>cached to your
>hard drive before it is played on screen. When you change channels, it
>takes a few seconds to see the channel change occur. BTW, TiVO and
>ReplayTV do the same sort of thing, but I don't think most people use
>them to watch TV, just to record it.
FWIW, and to add to my earlier post: I just asked my co-worker about his
Tivo experience. He does use it for live tv, and as far as changing
channels: "um, not anything significant... nothing more than regular
cable... maybe a second or less" And that's a hardware encoder, on like a
53MHz cpu or something? But with a nice real-time design, of course. From
a performance standpoint I'm still curious if we can't re-nice
mythbackend/mythfrontend, and using a hardware encoder get away with a
smaller live buffer. I'm a channel-surfer and I just can't change my ways!
;-) But I still love myth for scheduling recordings...
- Willy
>
>Nelson
>
>bpierce815 at charter.net wrote:
>
>> On Fri, 14 Nov 2003 06:27:01 -0800 (PST)
>> Peter Greis <peter_greis at yahoo.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Greetings All,
>>
>>
>> Greetings
>>
>>> One observation is that it takes an eternity (4-5
>>> seconds) to change channels. Is anyone else seeing
>>> this ?
>>
>>
>> I also see that it takes a long time to change channels, I was
>> attributing mine to the slow cpu(C3 Nemiah). But I am not sure that
>> this is correct. I am also seeing video and audio get a little jumpy
>> when the OSD comes up. Are you seeing this as well? What
>hardware are
>> you running?
>>
>> - Ben
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