[mythtv-users] Slow channel switching on PVR-250 ?

[Schlomo Schapiro]

Hi,

well. My frontend and my backend are in the living room and have no disks. 
the disks are in the basement and used over NFS (I don't have cable-TV in 
the basement).

Using browse mode might be nice if I would have decent EPG data. This is 
not the case here.

BTW, the OSD has all kind of funny problems, text beeing chopped off at 
the right even though there would be more space for it.

The Q was actually, how to reduce the buffering ?

Thanks,
Schlomo


On Sun, 25 Jul 2004, J. Donavan Stanley wrote:

> Schlomo Schapiro wrote:
> 
> >Hi,
> >
> >when I switch channels in Live-TV it takes 2-3 seconds to show the next 
> >channel. Can this be done faster, like in 0.5 secons as on a good TV set ? 
> >This is really annoying when zapping.
> >
> >Using mythtv-0.15.1
> >  
> >
> 
> 1) Make sure you're using a decent filesystem such as xfs
> 2) It's NEVER going to be as fast as just changing the channel on a TV 
> due to buffering.
> 3) Use the EPG or browse mode instead of chan up/down.
> 4) Search the archives because this has been discussed to death.
> 

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Regards,
Schlomo