[mythtv-users] I'm in....

[Michael Janer]

> FYI, I just did some channel changes with my DirecTivo and it takes 2-3 seconds from the key >press to when the new video starts. That's about as good as you can expect with digital video >because to change an mpeg stream you have to wait for an I-frame and fill up the decoding >buffer and that takes time. There's just no way you can change channels as fast as you can >with analog. If you have a digital cable or satellite box that's separate from the DVR then you >have potentially a decode, an encode, and another decode, so 4-5 seconds doesn't seem out of >line. 
 
FYI, I just did channel changes on my SA Tivo connected directly to cable, and it takes less than one second.  You are getting a 3 second lag because of your Direct Tivo having to tune to a different channel on the dish.  Nothing you can do about that.
 
Honer

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