[mythtv-users] WatchingLiveTV mode depends on encoders?

[Phill Edwards]

> Does it make sense to you folks that watching live tv would require
> encoders to be running?  The following was reported by mythbackend.log
> when I tried to watch live tv (at which point I had a blank screen
> with audio cutting on and off.

Yes. Live TV takes the TV signal, buffers it, encodes it (if it's a
bt8x8 card) and then writes it to disk. That all means that Live TV is
~ 3 seconds behind the actual broadcast. Because there's a buffer you
can pause/rewind/fforward etc.

Regards,
Phill