[mythtv-users] Slow channel switching on PVR-250 ?

Mark Maas mark at menem.mine.nu
Mon Jul 26 08:00:39 EDT 2004


Schlomo Schapiro wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> when I switch channels in Live-TV it takes 2-3 seconds to show the next 
> channel. Can this be done faster, like in 0.5 secons as on a good TV set ? 
> This is really annoying when zapping.
> 
> Using mythtv-0.15.1
> 
> Thanks,
> Schlomo

Hi,

I minimized the time of buffering by making sure the filesystem was 
XFS based and the computer was as fast as I could afford it.
Now it's 1.4Mhz, 512MB, 200GB XFS, and 20GB XFS for the os. 
Hauppauge PVR 350 using it's tv-out.

Switching channels takes ~ 1Second.

Thanks,
Mark


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