[mythtv-users] channel changing speed, is 3 seconds normal?

Michael J. Sherman msherman at dsbox.com
Tue Sep 30 09:52:30 EDT 2003


My channel changing process is also very long; equal or greater than 3 
seconds.  Also, sometimes it'll just miss a number, so it'll attempt to 
change to say 106, but only '1' and '6' gets sent, or sometime '1' and 
'0'.  It's random, and quite odd.



jose rubio wrote:

> On Mon, 2003-09-29 at 22:24, Sergio M. Ammirata wrote:
> 
>>I followed a thread regarding slow channel changing speed. That thread
>>suggested using either reiserfs or xfs for the cache partition. I tried
>>both and it takes about 3 seconds to change to another channel in
>>either. Is this normal?
>>
>>Is there any way to speed it up?
>>
>>I am using a pundit with a custom OS build. My CPU while watching live
>>TV is under 2%. I have a WD 160HD with DMA enabled.
>>
>>Thanks in advance,
>>
>>Sergio Ammirata
>>
> 
> 
> Yep, 3 secs is about right.  I'm not particularly happy with it and I'm
> sure there are things that can be done about it but the people that know
> what to do are too busy working on the nuts-n-bolts of the program.
> 
> I do know a little c myself...lol...but about all I could do is to put
> one of those "microsoft hour glass" cursors in the screen while the
> channel changes...
> 
> BST, I've timed Tivo, it takes less than 2 secs, closer to 1 second
> actually.  There's no reason why that speed (even better) cannot be
> achieved by myth...  We just need to keep working at it...
> 
> 
> -jose-
> 
> 



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