2 seconds is pretty good. Perhaps you should research just what mythtv is doing to get the TV signal from the antenna to the display. I think once you do, I think you'll be impressed that it can be done in 2 seconds.
<br><br>You CAN get rid of the delay by hooking your antenna directly to your TV if you like. :)<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Jan 17, 2008 2:29 PM, James Paige <<a href="mailto:jamesp@westcoastaerospace.com">jamesp@westcoastaerospace.com
</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">Hi there. I recently set up mythtv via the mythbuntu packages using a<br>
PVF-350 tuner card.<br><br>I connected it to my antennae, and was able to get local channels,<br>although when I connected my old television and my mythtv box to the<br>antennae simultaneously and tune them to the same channel, I noticed
<br>that the mythtv box was displaying with about a 2 second delay.<br><br>I have searched around in the archives of this list, and understand that<br> the delay is intentional, and necessary for recording and commercial
<br>flagging, correct?<br><br>Next I attached a camera to my PVR-350's S-Video input. This displays,<br>but it also has a 2 second delay. My goal is to have this camera in<br>another building (connected by a high-speed cable) and if I a person
<br>standing in front of the camera calls me on the phone, I would like<br>their mouth to sync up with their words.<br><br>In the channel editor, I marked the camera's channel as being<br>"Commercial Free", hoping that it would eliminate the delay, but it made
<br>no difference.<br><br>So, does anybody know how I can git rid of (or at least minimize) this 2<br>second delay?<br><br>[my apologies if this reaches the list twice. it didn't seem to work the<br>first time]<br><br>
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