[mythtv] Question about playback

[Isaac Richards]

On Friday 25 June 2004 11:08 am, Dudley Atkinson wrote:
> I'm digging into the playback code.  Can someone give me a short synopsis
> of the sequence of events that occurs when a playback is selected in
> mythfrontend?  It isn't as simple as cat>/dev/video0......
>
> Also, why is LiveTV buffered to/from disk when a PVR-350 card is present?
> Is it because it hasn't been coded yet?  I'd like to have the system detect
> encode/decode cards and skip the buffering - just pipe the input straight
> to the output?

Because the whole point of using mythtv is timeshifting?

Isaac