[mythtv-users] Watching TV without recording?

[Michael McConnell]

Perhaps a better questions, without sparking rude, "Well does XAWTV let your
pause," would be;

- Can I disable compression, and have a shorter pause period by using RAW
video directly to disk?
    = Would the IO issue's overwhelm my ATA 33 disk?

- I really love the EGP and Onscreen display features (and mythtv overall),
but my P3-500 (I can't afford a PVR 250) can't keep up, is there a way to
watch live TV directly from the capture card? Just the way XAWTV does?

- Are there any plans to implement a showshifter style of livetv / pause
features? Where the TV is displayed directly to screen, and ONLY when one
presses pause does it start to record the paused video.

- Can anyone recommend some compression setting for live tv that would work
well on my P3-350 ?

- If there were a really talented developer would wanted it to work on a
PII-250 they should look at what codec?

Hehe, a thought.

Mike

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Niklas Brunlid" <nbr at ticalc.org>
To: <mythtv-users at mythtv.org>
Sent: Saturday, February 21, 2004 10:46 AM
Subject: [mythtv-users] Watching TV without recording?


> Hi, new to Myth, got backend/frontend setup but still waiting on swedish
> tv_grab (yes, I saw the xmltv-devel post, but that attachment was
> incomplete :) ).
>
> Anyway, my question is: why must myth record/encode/decode if all you're
> doing is watching TV? Would the delay from jumping to LiveTV Pause mode be
> unacceptably long? I'm asking because it seems strange to use 50-80% of
> the CPU to do something that XawTV and TVTime do automatically.
>
> I know I can change the main menu "Watch TV" option to launch TVTime, or
> even add a new option, but that kinda defeats the purpose.
>
> / Niklas
>


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