[mythtv-users] MythTV

[Brian Meehan]

Caleb,

There's a slight delay when changing channels due to the nature of "live TV"
on Myth. It has to buffer before it can begin playing. Many people on this
list use "browse mode" instead of normal channel changing via "surfing"...
In fact, Issac posted last week about changing the default mode to Browse.

I think that option to change is under Setup>TV Settings>Playback, but I'm
not in front of my system, so I can't be sure. 

Another thing that may speed up the menus in Recordings is to switch to
Thumbnail instead of Live Preview. It's another setting in the menu. This is
good for older hardware.

Welcome to the MythTV community!

-Brian 

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[mailto:mythtv-users-bounces at mythtv.org] On Behalf Of jonr
Sent: Wednesday, March 02, 2005 6:32 PM
To: Discussion about mythtv
Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] MythTV

Caleb wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I recently downloaded and installed MythTV.  The documentation clearly 
> and concisely guided me through the initialization and configuration 
> of both the required MySQL database and the Myth Backend itself.  I've 
> rarely had such a good software installation/configuration experience 
> :).  The first time I ran the Frontend, everything ran smoothly.
> However, since then, any time I run the Myth Frontend, there is a 
> several-second lag in between screens.  Additionally, whenever I must 
> scroll through a list (such as in the Program Finder) there is about a 
> one-second lag going from entry to entry.  This makes it take 
> ridiculously long to get where I need to go.  I have tried running the 
> program in both Gnome and KDE, as well as XFCE, which is very 
> lightweight.  What should I do?  Thank you in advance for any help 
> that you can provide with this problem.
> 
> -Caleb

Hi Caleb,

Have you tried running 'top' on the command line to see what, if anything,
is slowing you down?

Jon
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