[mythtv] Help on changing mythsetup

Isaac Richards ijr at po.cwru.edu
Sun Dec 21 22:40:07 EST 2003


On Sunday 21 December 2003 10:01 pm, Curtis Wood wrote:
>    I haven't tried the dct-channel app - it doesnt apply to me. 

That's why I said 'something like' it.

> On the 
> setenv, that was just a quick hack to test things out - I wasnt going to
> submit it, but Baker wanted the patch.

It was in your original patch that you did submit, so I figured it would be in 
any further patches.

>    From what I could tell, there really isnt any where else to put the
> wait logic unless we/you just call another routine in between the
> nvr->rest() and nvr->unpause(). 

That's what I said -- ' a separate function in the Channel object should 
handle that'.

>    On just keeping it an external app, thats of course your call - I was
> just trying to smooth things out, the external channel changing is
> sloppy (visually) and it's a drain on performance having video after
> unpausing, then nothing for a second, then video again. It may be on the
> type of setup also, I dont know (pvr250,p4 2.4,backend==frontend) - its
> just that the current way to change channels with an external app in the
> background, just isnt doing a good enough job.

Why would it be any slower if it's in a separate C app?  The only difference 
is execing the app after the fork instead of just calling a function, and 
that should be completely negligible since, with the rest of your patch, it'd 
then be done in parallel.

Isaac


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