[mythtv-users] LiveTV channel switching time

Rudy Zijlstra mythtv at edsons.demon.nl
Mon Nov 20 08:01:37 UTC 2006


John Drescher wrote:

>
>
> On 11/19/06, *Andrew Wilson* <migmog at gmail.com 
> <mailto:migmog at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
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>     I just tried live tv (UK, DVB-T, separate low oomph front and back
>     end
>     boxes running svn from some time after 0.19) and myth takes something
>     between 8 and 12 secs to change channels, which pretty much makes it
>     unusable. Browse mode is a kludge to make the best of a poor
>     situation.
>
>
> Hmm, I had a satellite dish for 10 years and it took longer than that 
> to switch channels so I would definitely not call  this unusable.
>
> John

Modern day DVB-S STB takes about 2 seconds to change channels. You get 
used to such things...


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