[mythtv-users] Channel changing delays

[Tako Schotanus]

Forgive me for playing devil's advocate, but this doesn't seem like a 
very good reason. To buffer "a bit" of video you could assume that 1 or 
2 frames worth of data would be enough to just start playing. So there 
has to be another reason that the delay is bigger than just 1/nth of a 
second instead of a seond or more.

Any detailed reason you can give for this delay?

What I especially would like to know if reducing delay is a technical 
impossibility or if it's just difficult given the current implementation.

Cheers,
 -Tako

Jarod Wilson wrote:

> On Wednesday, Sep 3, 2003, at 11:54 US/Pacific, Mike Davis wrote:
>
>> Is there a way to speed up the channel changing in Mythtv?  Right now 
>> when I
>> change channels, there is a significant delay before the channel 
>> changes in
>> Mythtv.
>
>
> With MythTV, you're not really watching live TV. You're watching a 
> recorded file. There has to be a bit of video buffered to disk before 
> 'live' TV can resume when you change channels. You can't play back a 
> file before it has any content. So no, you can't speed it up.
>
> --Jarod
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