[mythtv-users] 0.19 LiveTV problems

[James Dastrup]

On Thu, 2006-02-16 at 12:13 +1300, Pshem Kowalczyk wrote:
> On 16/02/06, James Dastrup <jc at dastrup.com> wrote:
> > On Mon, 2006-02-13 at 16:40 -0700, James Dastrup wrote:
> > > Everything working pretty well for me with the new version, except it
> > > now takes about 15 seconds from when you click 'Watch TV' to when the
> > > picture appears.
> >
> > I haven't seen any replies to this, maybe no one else is experiencing
> > it. But I'll add a little more details to this, just in case. I'm using
> > the exact same hardware and environment from 0.18.1.  The upgrade went
> > smooth.
> >
> > I have a backend with an HD tuner card, and a separate frontend. When I
> > start watching LiveTV on the frontend, it takes 15 seconds to start
> > watching LiveTV. If I run mythfrontend on the backend and watch LiveTV,
> > it start in 6 seconds! There is also several other little quirks that
> > have showed up with LiveTV - a few prebuffering pauses, audio out of
> > sync at times, OSD not smooth during the fadeout, etc.  But, watching
> > recordings is fine.  I had no virtually no LiveTV issues with 0.18.1.
> 
> How long does it take you to switch from one channel to the other? I
> my case it's roughly about 8 seconds (on the same box backend is
> running). The start-up time is about 10sec.
> 

About 6-7 seconds; which is twice as long than with 0.18.  Did the time
increase for you after the upgrade? Is it acceptable? If you have HD,
are their any other glitches?