[mythtv-users] Slow tuning and buffering with Live TV

[Stephen Worthington]

On Sat, 15 Jul 2017 11:25:48 +0000, you wrote:

>On 15 July 2017 8:27:36 pm evade. <evade at internode.on.net> wrote:
>
>> On 12/07/17 23:36, Stuart Auchterlonie wrote:
>>>> (In response to a thread about liveTV buffering problems which
>>>>  were ultimately caused by a graphics card)
>>>
>>> If it only occurs in livetv, then try rewinding a bit, so that you
>>> are watching "live tv" with a slightly larger delay than before.
>>>
>>> Some people seem to hit this issue only on livetv since it's trying
>>> to playback too close to the end of the recording.
>>>
>>>
>>> Regards
>>> Stuart
>>>
>>
>> I'm curious, is it normal for people to pause when first watching a
>> channel in order to work-around problems like this?
>>
>> You've not said it, but I have heard a few people suggest that I should
>> avoid watching live TV and shouldn't ever "channel surf".  However it
>> seems to me that this is just a work-around for an unsolved technical
>> problem.
>>
>> Commercial PVRs seem to be able to change channel relatively quickly (at
>> least as quick as my two MythTVv boxes with DVB-T tuners) without
>> problem.  Could anybody guess how they do it?
>>
>> Thank you,
>> evade.
>> _______________________________________________
>
>I have no issue channel surfing LiveTV.
>
>In the first instance i would be interested if this fixed your issue or 
>not, as a data point.
>
>There were a lot of improvements to LiveTV circa 0.27, I feel sometimes 
>that a lot of the bad reputation of LiveTV comes from experience prior to 
>that. Although I suspect that there are some people still running old 
>versions that probably still use this work around in lieu of upgrading.

The problem of having to pause for a short time after starting LiveTV
still happens in 0.28+fixes here in New Zealand on DVB-T.