On 11/19/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Ian Forde</b> <<a href="mailto:ian@duckland.org">ian@duckland.org</a>> wrote:<div><span class="gmail_quote"></span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
On Sat, 2006-11-18 at 10:57 -0800, Marco Nelissen wrote:<br>> Except that on the very same hardware, I can use mplayer to go to live<br>> TV in about 2 seconds. That puts the problem back in the mythtv-world<br>> I would say.
<br><br>mplayer reads directly from the card, so it's displaying unbuffered<br>input.<br><br>MythTV, as a DVR, reads from the card, buffers it to disk, then plays<br>from the stored file, which is how you get DVR functionality.
<br></blockquote></div><br>There's no real reason why the buffer should slow anything down though. The system should only require a small amount of data in the buffer for accurate playback - no more than a couple of a frames. I suspect the difference is more likely due to the client/server architecture. mplayer doesn't have a network layer in the middle of it's playback path.
<br><br>Steve<br><br>