[mythtv-users] channel change delay with PVR350

Brian Stults bstults at crim.ufl.edu
Fri Feb 13 13:19:50 EST 2004


Bill Bradley wrote:
> On Friday 13 February 2004 07:22 am, Brian Stults wrote:
>>Long ago I had an AverMedia TVPhone tuner card.  It was a BT848 card.
>>When I used xawtv to view TV with it, I could flip really fast through
>>the channels.  I recognize that mythtv does a whole lot more than xawtv,
>>but why is it that much different for just watching TV?
>>
>>I'm sure I'm just not understanding something about the internals of
>>mythtv, but I'm curious.  Channel flipping is also a big part of the WAF.
>>
>>Thanks again!
> 
> 
> Myth is actually encoding and buffering the live tv while xawtv is just 
> diplaying.

That makes sense.  Out of curiosity, why does mythtv do this if you're 
just watching live tv?  I can understand it would need to encode and 
decode if you're pausing (or recording, of course), but why when 
watching live tv?


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