[mythtv-users] 0.25 - livetv fails when starting on a specific channel

[Jean-Yves Avenard]

On Monday, 19 March 2012, Ronald Frazier <ron at ronfrazier.net> wrote:

> I also rediscovered the reason why I originally turned on
> AlwaysStreamFiles. When watching live tv, there is tons of pixelation
> every second or two. If you pause it and let it fall about 1-2 seconds
> behind live, then the pixelation goes away. Coincidentally, when
> streaming from the backend, channel changing takes about 1-2 seconds
> longer. Furthermore, I tested using NFS without actimeo=0, and the
> result is that there is no pixelation in live tv, but channel changing
> is about 1-2 second slower than streaming from the backend (and thus
> is't 2-4 seconds slower than using NFS with actimeo=0).
>

Something has changed recently with liveTV in that it doesn't buffer enough
and you find that playback isn't good until you pause for 4-5 seconds...

We are aware of this issue.
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