[mythtv-users] Channel changing delays
Joel Feenstra
joelf at altelco.net
Thu Sep 4 15:39:48 EDT 2003
I suppose there could be branch in the buffering code that could be used
to make it faster if it were a local frontend. Not that I would know how
to code that or anything.
Joel Feenstra
Jarod Wilson wrote:
> 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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