[mythtv-users] DCT2000 SLOW!

Ian Forde ian at duckland.org
Thu Oct 6 05:08:44 UTC 2005


On Thu, 2005-10-06 at 00:56 -0400, Tony O'Rourke wrote:
> I have managed to get mythtv to change the channel via a serial cable
> hooked up to the cable box, in my case a Motorola DCT2000. It runs the
> changechannel.py script supplied with mythtv. But here is the rub: the
> channels change super slow- like 8 seconds slow. It works, but is
> unacceptably slow. 

Use the C program that's also in contrib/ and see if it works for you (I
stopped working on changechannel.py a LONG time ago... ;) ) If you get
the same speed issues, try it with a different computer (like, say... a
laptop...)

	-I



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