[mythtv-users] Channel changing delays

[Jarod Wilson]

On Wednesday, Sep 3, 2003, at 11:54 US/Pacific, Mike Davis wrote:

> Is there a way to speed up the channel changing in Mythtv?  Right now 
> when I
> change channels, there is a significant delay before the channel 
> changes in
> Mythtv.

With MythTV, you're not really watching live TV. You're watching a 
recorded file. There has to be a bit of video buffered to disk before 
'live' TV can resume when you change channels. You can't play back a 
file before it has any content. So no, you can't speed it up.

--Jarod

-- 
Jarod C. Wilson, RHCE

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