[mythtv-users] PVR350 + MythTv behaviour

[Joseph A. Caputo]

On Monday 10 November 2003 14:19, Olivier wrote:
> Torsten,
>
> Thanks for the good description. This is pretty exciting.
>
> There has been some discussion in the last few days about channel
> change delay; With the 350 hardware, is it possible to feed both the
> tv out directly, *and* writing the mpeg stream to disk ? This would
> allow live tv mode to be really live as opposed to have the 2-3
> second buffering delay. I understand that  for other cards that do
> not have tv in and out on the same board, this ring buffer is always
> required, even when watching live, but with the PVR350, I guess we
> could have a mode where if you are almost live (i.e. 2-3 second
> behind), it switches to real live tv where tv-out is feed with tv-in
> and not the ring buffer.
>
> What is you though on that ? if pvr hardware supports that, it would
> be a pretty nivce feature especially for setup with an external tv
> tuner...
>
> Olivier.

What exactly would you gain by doing that?  I could see the attraction 
for an analog tuner (i.e., don't do simultaneous encode/decode until 
you have to so as not to tax the CPU unnecessarily), but if you have a 
HW encoder & decoder, what are you gaining by not using one of them?

-JAC