[mythtv-users] XBMC port to Linux and Mythtv

[David Whyte]

On 9/3/07, kanetse at gmail.com <kane.tse at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I'm just curious to know how people define slow for MythTV on the
> XBox.  I just did a clean install of Xebian 1.1.4 and MythTV-0.20.2
> today and I got times like this:
>
> A. From power off to MythTV main menu: 1m56s
> B. From main menu to TV menu: 2s
> C. From TV menu to show recordings menu: 4s
> D. From show recordings to playing a show: 20s.
>
> While A and D are a little on the lengthy side, it's hardly unusable.
> When I usually do is boot up the XBox and then start getting snacks
> ready or whatever.  As for D, 20s is quite a while to wait; but
> usually one already knows what they're going to watch, so it's not a
> like we'll be doing a lot of channel flipping.
>
> As for during watching the program itself, there are virtually no
> delays when skipping ahead, skipping back or using any of the time
> stretch features.  Is there somewhere else where there are huge delays
> that I'm not seeing?

Nope, that's similar to my 0.20.1 installs.  One thing to note is that
once you have gone into LiveTV in the Xbox, surfing to the next
channel isn't slow, it is just the initial loading of the player
itself.

Cheers,
Whytey