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

[Marco Nelissen]

>>> 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...  ;)

Oh, I'm sure there's some problem with the MythTV code that got 'fixed'
by adding this excessive buffering, but what I meant was that in general
you don't need to buffer 3 seconds worth of data before you can start
playing it, PVR features or not. If that was really needed, then all
digital tuners would have huge buffers and be slow when changing channels,
and Tivo wouldn't be able to change channels so fast either.
And for what it's worth: I may be new to MythTV, but I have plenty of
experience with audio/video software.