<p>I remember someone was looking at it in the last year and I think even identified a couple of seconds of improvements but I don't recall any patches, even if there were they would likely to have been applied to master or waiting in the queue for master/trunk what will become .25</p>
<div class="gmail_quote">On Sep 29, 2011 5:08 PM, "Eduard Huguet" <<a href="mailto:eduardhc@gmail.com">eduardhc@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution">> Hi, Josu<br>> <br>> I'm sorry, but you're beating a dead horse here: standard answer for<br>
> this question has been, since MythTV origins, a mix of "don't use<br>> LiveTV & schedule recordings instead", "MythTV is not intended to be<br>> use for LiveTV", "devs are not interested and since they code for fun<br>
> etc etc", bla bla bla...<br>> <br>> Been a MythTV user since..., heck I don't even remember since when. I<br>> can tell you this question has been brought countless times, and<br>> anyone bringing it has received the very same answers. So, unless you<br>
> are willing to take a look yourself at the code and optimize it, I<br>> guarantee you you won't get anything useful from this list regarding<br>> this question.<br>> <br>> Anyway, just for the record: delays in LiveTV channel changes are<br>
> caused by the way MythTV operates: the backend tunes, then start<br>> recording the ring buffer file, which in turn the frontend is in the<br>> meantime trying to open and read, which can't be done until a number<br>
> of seconds ellapse, due to writing buffering issues, non-keyframes<br>> being discarded, etc...<br>> <br>> In a nutshell, the whole process sums up a considerable amount of<br>> seconds, but changing it would require a massive rewrite of how LiveTV<br>
> playing works. Not trivial, I can assure you.<br>> <br>> Kind regards,<br>> Eduard Huguet<br>> _______________________________________________<br>> mythtv-users mailing list<br>> <a href="mailto:mythtv-users@mythtv.org">mythtv-users@mythtv.org</a><br>
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