[mythtv] Suggestion for improving SLOW channel changing inLiveTV.....

[Isaac Richards]

On Saturday 10 September 2005 04:33 am, Ed W wrote:
> The contructive thing to do is to put in a few timing statements into I
> think it's NuppleVideoPlayer.cpp and start tracking down the exact
> delays (Isaac, please remind me where the main code is).  It's actually
> fairly tricky because there are multiple threads and they synchronise on
> signals, hence you can't just look at the code flow to see all the delays.

Main control logic's in tv_rec.cpp and tv_play.cpp.  The various threads 
they're stopping/starting live elsewhere, but should be easy enough to find 
with grep.

And yes, this is how you speed up channel changing, not by coming up with 
crazily overcomplicated schemes.

Isaac