[mythtv-users] Slow Channel Change Time with PVR-350

Chris Delis cedelis at uillinois.edu
Sat Dec 6 10:28:01 EST 2003


This has been discussed before quite a bit already.

try doing a search on the gossamer site.

On Sat, Dec 06, 2003 at 10:23:17AM -0500, Craig Gostin wrote:
> All -
> 
> I just recently started to play with mythtv under Debian Linux (sid) 
> using a
> PVR-350 card. After a fair bit of playing around, I've been able to get 
> quite nice
> output to my CRT using Torsten Schenkel's XF86Config file as the basis for
> my X11 display settings along with the latest (0.12) release of mythtv 
> and the
> ivtv release from November 25th.
> 
> My question is this: When viewing live TV under X11, when I switch channels
> (using the keyboard... I have yet to get the remote working), there is 
> roughly
> a 3 second pause/freeze of the picture on the current channel before the 
> video
> from the new channel begins to play. Is this normal? Do others 
> experience the
> same delay? This is a bit annoying.
> 
> I have yet to test the tv-out functionality of the PVR-350 (I plan to do 
> so sometime
> soon), so maybe the slowness is related to mythtv under X11 vs. TV-out?
> 
> Any help and/or thoughts is greatly appreciated.
> 
> Thanks,
> Craig
> 
> 

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