[mythtv-users] Freevo, Tivo & MythTV

[Remco Treffkorn]

On Friday 17 November 2006 20:44, Chris Ribe wrote:
> It occurs to me that there are different types of buffering for
> different reasons being discussed here.
>
> If your frontend and backend are cohosted, there is no reason that
> Myth channel changes can't be every bit as quick as xawtv or tvtime
> channel changes.

I think the frames have to go through the mpeg codec. That takes time.

> If your frontend and backend are separated by a network, then there is
> no avoiding the waiting - without introducing skipping and dropped
> frames and all sorts of decoder unhappiness.

In VoIP it's called a jitter buffer. It is an artificially introduced latency 
to make up for network delays.

The question is what the best size of this buffer is.
How much data does Myth buffer before playing starts?

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