[mythtv-users] [mythtv] CC benchmarks and procedure list ? Was: how would one speed up the channel changing in mythtv ?

Dan Christensen jdc at uwo.ca
Wed Oct 22 02:02:31 UTC 2008


"Michael T. Dean" <mtdean at thirdcontact.com> writes:

> On 10/21/2008 03:49 PM, Dan Christensen wrote:
>> Doug Young writes:
>>   
>>> My solution was straightforward.  I took the actual perl to change the
>>> channel and made it into a daemon that listens on a fifo object.  
>>>     
>> Sounds great!  Can you make this available for others to use?
>
> Another option is to create a channel change script that backgrounds the
> actual channel change. 

My impression from the discussion I trimmed above is that this could
like to multiple copies of the channel change script running at the same
time and simultaneously sending IR signals.  I believe Doug's script
queues up requests without making the caller wait, so it sounds more
robust. 

Dan


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