[mythtv-users] delay in viewing live TV?

[Thomas M. Pluth]

If you want to lose the features of MythTV, you can manually tune your
PVR-250 and watch what it's capturing with mplayer directly.


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[mailto:mythtv-users-bounces at mythtv.org] On Behalf Of Tom E. Craddock, Jr.
Sent: Saturday, September 25, 2004 8:06 AM
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Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] delay in viewing live TV?

James Jones wrote:

> OK. I finally have my wife set up with MythTV, with a PVR 250.
>
> Apparently MythTV does some disk buffering, even of live TV. Is that 
> inherent in MythTV, or in the video card I'm using? (Were it not a PVR 
> 250, I'd point her at one of the other TV viewing programs, but they 
> apparently expect data in a format other than the 250 emits.)
>
>    James Jones
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James,

To take advantage of MythTVs features, it has to buffer Live TV. If you 
want to rewind and catch something, or pause/ff, there has to be 
something buffered in memory for Myth, or any other PVR software that 
allows for this sort of thing.  If she just wants to watch TV thru her 
PC and not have any PVR software, if shes on windows, you can get 
Happauges WinTV program from their website.


Tom E. Craddock, Jr.