[mythtv-users] Channel changing delays

[Jarod Wilson]

On Wednesday, Sep 3, 2003, at 20:05 US/Pacific, Chris Hillman wrote:

>>
>>
>>> 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
>>>
> Does a TiVo behave the same way?.. this is the reason I don't use 
> MythTV for live TV viewing, just scheduling recordings and some of the 
> other modules.
>
> -Chris
> On Wednesday, Sep 3, 2003, at 20:13 US/Pacific, Ian Forde wrote:
>
>> Yeah, except that the Tivo channel change is much faster!  ;)
>>
>> 	-Ian (MythTV & Tivo owner)

I should have actually said that PERHAPS there was something you could 
do if you wanted to look into the code and somehow optimize channel 
changes... If TiVo can do it, MythTV can do it (if/when someone codes 
it). :)

--Jarod

-- 
Jarod C. Wilson, RHCE

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