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

[J Donavan Stanley]

On Fri, 2003-11-14 at 20:40, Joe Buehl wrote:
> FYI, I just did some channel changes with my DirecTivo and it takes
> 2-3 seconds from the key press to when the new video starts.  That's
> about as good as you can expect with digital video because to change
> an mpeg stream you have to wait for an I-frame and fill up the
> decoding buffer and that takes time.  There's just no way you can
> change channels as fast as you can with analog.  If you have a digital
> cable or satellite box that's separate from the DVR then you have
> potentially a decode, an encode, and another decode, so 4-5 seconds
> doesn't seem out of line.
> 


No it doesn't.  You and I both can't count don't ya know?