[mythtv-users] I'm in....

[Boyd II, Willy]

>-----Original Message-----
>From: Chris Delis [mailto:chris at delis.net] 
>Sent: Friday, November 14, 2003 10:16 AM
>To: Discussion about mythtv
>Subject: RE: [mythtv-users] I'm in....
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>Great.  I wasn't aware of it.  I will check it out.
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I'm pretty sure this was before the 0.12 release, and so is included in
that.  So if you're running the latest release, don't checkout CVS only my
account :-D  But anyway like I said you'll probably find that it makes
little difference in channel change (maybe for those with slower systems,
disks, filesystems, etc.)


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>> if I fast-forward as far as the player will let me, then 
>compare real 
>> live tv on a tv, with the myth output, it's a full 4 seconds behind 
>> for me. Which suggests the delay has little to do with 
>channel change 
>> actions, and more to do with how much the player process needs to 
>> output reliably (with no dropped frames or audio blips, etc.)
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>> - Willy
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>> >> play as soon as it sees data, and 3-4 seconds is the best we
>> >can do?
>> >> Or is it stored in some variable in the code, and 3-4
>> >seconds worth of
>> >> data seemed reasonable for most systems?  (And I'm actually one 
>> >> that
>> >> promised to look through the code and figure this out :-D 
> I have to 
>> >> admit I haven't gotten beyond a few basics timing tests 
>in my spare 
>> >> time, so not trying to be a
>> >> hypocrite)  Does anyone with a Tivo or ReplayTV see a 3-4 
>> >second delay?  For
>> >> a hardware encoder, and therefore just a simple player off
>> >of /dev/video0,
>> >> with modern hardware, I'm surprised that 3-4 seconds is the
>> >smaller buffer
>> >> that will play reliably.  For software encoding I realize
>> >that's a different
>> >> story...  but if the buffer is designed around a catch-all
>> >solution, maybe
>> >> it can be shortened for hardware encoder systems?
>> >> 
>> >> - Willy
>> >> 
>> >> >
>> >> >> 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?
>> >> >
>> >> >This is due to the slow hardware. ME6000 on this side. Got lots 
>> >> >better with the pvr350 though.
>> >> >
>> >> >Torsten
>> >> >--
>> >> >Config files for pvr350 tv-out and framebuffer:
>> >> >http://www-isl.mach.uni-karlsruhe.de/>~hi93/ivtv-pvr-350-conf.tgz
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