[mythtv-users] Myth very slow to change channels.... (DVB-T)

[Wade Maxfield]

Jean-Yves Avenard wrote:
> Hi
> 
> 2008/8/26 Brad DerManouelian <myth at dermanouelian.com>:
>> Just to add a tiny bit of value to my post:
>> Frontend does not buffer. As soon as the data becomes available for
>> playing, it plays.
> 
> How do you explain that when I kill mythbackend ; the frontend client
> will continue to play for over 5s ?
> this can only be done if buffering happened.

As Brad says mythfrontend does not buffer the data.  The backend buffers 
a little before writing to the recording file, as does the OS/filesystem 
itself.

  - Wade