[mythtv-users] Freevo, Tivo & MythTV

[Kevin Kuphal]

Kevin Hulse wrote:
> On Sun, Nov 19, 2006 at 10:51:31AM +1300, Steve Hodge wrote:
>   
>> On 11/19/06, Viitasaari <public at viitasaari.ca> wrote:
>>     
>>> You know it's funny because I have talked to users the same way you are
>>> talking to me...unfortunately, I am not buying it.
>>>
>>>       
>> I'm not trying to convince you that channel changes can't be improved. What
>> I'm saying is that it's not a big problem for most users and more
>> importantly it's not a problem for the devs. So if you want something done
>> about it you're going to have to do it yourself.
>>     
>
> 	Perhaps some extra debugging output should be enabled
> to make tracking down this particular problem easier. That way
> you could tell a user to set the -debug-slow-channel-changes flag
> when starting mythfrontend and them them set you the logfile.
>   
This is pretty much what has been proposed time and time again.  No one 
has stepped up to add any code to channel changing to collect metrics or 
otherwise profile the code to find out where all the time is being spent.

Kevin