[mythtv-users] PVR350 + MythTv behaviour

[Boyd II, Willy]

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>From: Olivier [mailto:obrodeur at videotron.ca] 
>Sent: Monday, November 10, 2003 2:07 PM
>To: Discussion about mythtv
>Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] PVR350 + MythTv behaviour
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>> 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?
>>
>
>That would eliminate the ring buffer delay. changing channel 
>would be instantaneous... and driving waf (wife acceptance 
>factor) up!  :-)

Yeah but then you lose all PVR capabilities (and I'm not so sure how well
"switching" between the two would be, or if useful anyway).  To pause or
time-shift tv you need to be displaying from already recorded content... you
need to be playing from the disk, not the live feed.  I think the motivation
should simply be in figuring out how to minimize the buffer and get smooth
playback, not kill the time-shifting functionality :-)

- Willy
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