[mythtv-users] MythTV channel buffer

Michael T. Dean mtdean at thirdcontact.com
Thu Apr 13 22:18:22 UTC 2006


On 04/13/2006 05:59 PM, Felix Rubinstein wrote:
> While watching Live TV, there is a pause of several seconds while 
> MythTV buffers the new channel.
> If I use S-Video/RCA instead of antena and I have satellite receiver 
> it's very annoying to have 3-4 seconds delay while changing channels 
> by satellite receiver! Once again, I use S-Video not antena so browse 
> mode doesn't help.
>
> Just in case I do have development skills and must say that it is very 
> bad idea to have so called channel buffer!!
> Just in case I utilize Philips HDRW 720 and guess what, it doesn't 
> have this problem at all.
> My point is that if MythTV is ever longing to be a mature software and 
> not a banch of integrational tools where every user rewrites it for 
> it's personal usage, it must drop such ideas, like above mentioned 
> channel buffer.
>
> Linux is very mature OS where one can allow itself to read and write 
> simulteniously from any buffer.
> Personally, I was shocked when first read about this limitation.
> Why by choosing watch tv from main menu should there be any delay 
> before seeing live tv, why people why??? Why cannot I see the live tv 
> right away and buffer it right away too? Why? Because Philips 
> developers smarter?

Because you haven't written the code to do it differently, yet.

Mike


More information about the mythtv-users mailing list