[mythtv-users] The Race to Change the Channel

[Robert Denier]

I tend to more or less agree that changing channels super fast is not
too important.  Small dish receivers haven't ever done this fast.  Of
course adding the myth layer slows things down a little, but for quite
practical reasons and its no big deal.

Now if one wanted a trivial way to flip channels fast, at least in
principle, you could use inactive capture cards to lock on and start a
stream on the next channel while your still on the current channel.
Then you also need to have the decompression sequence started as well,
but in principle you could double your flipping channels rate.

Is it worth the trouble?  I doubt it...

-Robert Denier

On Mon, 2005-10-17 at 21:33 -0700, Joe Votour wrote:
> I agree, with one caveat.
> 
> I still use the LiveTV feature, although not as much
> as I used to (because even though I'm on the west
> coast, most of my channels are east coast feeds, which
> necessitates recording everything).
> 
> Even though I still use LiveTV, I would never, ever
> "channel surf".  What's the point, when you have full
> program information available with only a button
> press?  If I'm watching LiveTV (because, perhaps I've
> watched all of my recordings), when I want to find
> something to watch, I'll scroll through the program
> guide.  It's much more effective than scrolling
> through every channel.
> 
> Even with a real TV, channel surfing is a pointless
> waste of time.  While you're busy going through your
> 50+ channels looking for something to watch, you might
> be missing something you'd actually enjoy.
> 
> -- Joe
> 
> --- Andrew McNabb <amcnabb at mcnabbs.org> wrote:
> 
> > On Mon, Oct 17, 2005 at 11:08:55PM -0400, Sam Krupa
> > wrote:
> > > 
> > > What is the fix for the channel changing problem!
> > > 
> > 
> > Everyone knows that changing channels is slow, but
> > most of us don't
> > care.  I can't remember the last time I turned on
> > the TV to watch Live
> > TV.  I just record all of the shows I like.  MythTV
> > was designed and
> > optimized for time-shifting, and I don't think there
> > are very many
> > people that would want to change that design just to
> > make changing
> > channels faster.  That's my opinion, anyway.
> > 
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