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

[Marco Nelissen]

>Idea One: Take a snapshot of the stream being switched to and display
>that with a status message such as "loading X". When the buffer is
>ready switch to the live buffer.

This is similar to the idea of playing the video slowly for a while
to build up the buffer that was mentioned earlier, and my response is
similar too: if MythTV can take an immediate snapshot of the stream,
then it should also be able to just start playing right away.