[mythtv-users] MythTV Installer Usability: An Analysis

[Isaac Richards]

On Friday 04 November 2005 09:04 pm, chris at cpr.homelinux.net wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 04, 2005 at 11:33:41AM -0500, Dewey Smolka wrote:
> > One of these is that the ring buffer is not a standard recording, so
> > that when you change channels, for example, the ring buffer is erased
> > and restarted.
>
> I know the question has been asked before, but it begs repeating: WHY?

It was much simpler to implement that way.

> Why do you need to delete a buffer and then recreate it when you could
> simply stop sending data to the buffer until a new signal comes in and
> then continue from where you left off?

Because the video format can change when you change channels, and restarting 
the buffer made handling this easier.

> This behavior would suggest 
> that the code implimenting the buffer is too tightly integrated into
> the tuner code and should be refactored as a separate module.

It suggests no such thing, really.  The buffer's got nothing to do with the 
'tuner code'.

Isaac