[mythtv-users] Channel changing delays

[Jarod Wilson]

On Thursday, Sep 4, 2003, at 07:04 US/Pacific, Tako Schotanus wrote:

> Forgive me for playing devil's advocate, but this doesn't seem like a 
> very good reason. To buffer "a bit" of video you could assume that 1 
> or 2 frames worth of data would be enough to just start playing. So 
> there has to be another reason that the delay is bigger than just 
> 1/nth of a second instead of a seond or more.
>
> Any detailed reason you can give for this delay?
>
> What I especially would like to know if reducing delay is a technical 
> impossibility or if it's just difficult given the current 
> implementation.

I'm sure it is possible to speed up the channel change a bit, but you 
would have to dig into the code to do it. Not a technical 
impossibility, just difficult given the current implementation. The 
best reasoning I've heard for not making it faster is because of remote 
frontend situations, where you need a bit more than one or two frames 
buffered...

--Jarod

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