[mythtv-users] Why does going to live TV take so long?

[Michael T. Dean]

On 03/09/2006 11:02 PM, Marco Nelissen wrote:
>> Marco Nelissen wrote:
>>     
>>> When I go to "Watch TV", it takes about 5 seconds before I actually
>>> get a picture (OTA HD using Fusion HDTV5 Lite). Changing channels is
>>> equally slow. Why does this take so long, and is there a way to speed
>>> it up?
>> Let's see.  At a minimum, Myth requires 2 or 3 seconds of buffer in 
>> order to provide the PVR features while watching LiveTV,
>>     
>
> That seems rather excessive. There's really no reason to buffer that
> much data before starting to play it.

Says the guy who didn't write/debug the LiveTV code...  ;)

Mike