[mythtv-users] Changing Channels

[Jeff Artz]

I've got two older DishPlayer 7200's with upgraded HDD's (one is 120GB 
[~100hrs recording], the other just 30GB [~27 hrs recording]).  Browsing 
channels by going up & down with the remote is pretty useless -- it takes at 
least 2 or 3 seconds (sometimes longer) for the channel to sync up and start 
to display.  Once I got used to using the 'Listings' to see what's on, it 
was never an issue...  There's no need for 'channel surfing' when you have 
an interactive program guide!  (That's just my opinion, but many on this 
group have expressed the same...)

My DP is always buffering the signal, even if watching 'live', pretty much 
exactly like MythTV (except that it doesn't have to encode the video -- it's 
already MPEG2 straight off the satellite).  So the DP just has to buffer it 
to disk and decode it.

So why am I 'switching' to MythTV?   Well, here's a list:
   1) I can have any 'tv' in the house watch any channel on the Satellite, 
without having to have a seperate Satellite box for each tv. (assuming I've 
got a frontend setup at every TV/Monitor)
   2) Any recordings on MythTV can be watched from any frontend -- Right now 
I've got two DP 7100 PVR's, but the recordings can only be watched on the 
PVR that they were recorded on.  (unless I rip them to the PC and burn 
DVD's, which I do from time to time!  ;-) )
   3) I've got a few old 500 to 750mhz pc's around to build frontends from 
thanks to my employer updating to new PC's... ;-)
   4) I've always wanted to learn/play with Linux!
   5) Hey, I'm a technical computer geek...  I gotta have all sorts of neat 
'toys'!!!  This is FUN!!!!!

Jeff

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Evil Nathan" <evilnathan at gmail.com>
To: "Discussion about mythtv" <mythtv-users at mythtv.org>
Sent: Thursday, January 06, 2005 5:58 PM
Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] Changing Channels


----- Original Message ----- 
> BTW: I have a Dish Network PVR system, and it's
>actually the same thing -- it takes 3-5 seconds to change >channels.

Really?!  That's nuts!  How do you stand that?  (the change between
channels) In the PVR I have (and at least in the other providers in my
area/country) you watch a live-stream until you pause, or rewind, then
you're dealing with the MPEG-2 stream.  You're not ALWAYS watching a
pre-recorded stream.  (even if it is being recorded at the same time)

I always wondered if this was possible with some of the cards used in Myth.
Play the live-stream, and record it at the same time, and only jump to the
recorded stream when you pause/rewind.  However, since I'm not a programmer,
I wouldn't know if this was possible with the current drivers.  Heh.

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