[mythtv] Sssssllooooowwww watching TV

Rick Warner rick at sapphire.no-ip.com
Sat Mar 29 11:50:17 EST 2003


On Saturday 29 March 2003 07:35 am, dbakker at arrayasolutions.com wrote:
> Live TV is a good 2 secs behind what is actually being played. If I change
> the channel on my cable box it takes a good 2 seconds for myth to pick it
> up. Im using mythtv .8, ati wonder, AMD XP 2400+ with 512MB of ram. Its
> not my system specs. tvtime works great. Any ideas?

This is normal behavior.... Myth is encoding/decoding the data to enable 
pause/ff/rewind.  The other prog you mentioned is prolly just for live tv 
viewing, not time shifting.  A tivo does the same thing as myth as far as a 
delay.

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Rick Warner
Systems Integrator
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