[mythtv-users] Freevo, Tivo & MythTV

[Marco Nelissen]

>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.

That is true for all apps in my case, since my capture cards capture
the over-the-air mpeg2 stream. There is no "direct-to-display" option
here. In any case, it only takes a fraction of a second (about 1/30 of
a second on average in the US ;) to decode a frame, so that shouldn't
be an issue at all.