[mythtv-users] BIG PROBLEM! Watching LiveTV is very slow !!!!!

[sschaefer1 at woh.rr.com]

someone more familiar with your type of capture card might be able to weigh in
I have a Hauppauge PVR 350 and there is a lag time, think about 3 seconds, so I know that it is expected, like I said I don't have experience with your card, but 5 and 10 seconds seems a few seconds too long


----- Original Message -----
From: Christopher Böhm <webmaster at drk-solms.de>
Date: Thursday, December 9, 2004 6:28 am
Subject: [mythtv-users] BIG PROBLEM! Watching LiveTV is very slow !!!!!

> Hello out there,
> i hope someone here can help me.
> First i must say: "i love mythtv", its very nice, but there are 3 BIG
> PROBLEMS WITH THE SPEED!!!
> 
> 1) WATCHING LIVE TV
> If I am in the main-menu and i wanna watch liveTV i clicked the 
> button "TV"
> and then there is 2 sec. only a black screen, then there comes a slow
> picture without sound, and then after 3 more seconds there will be 
> picturesin normal speed with sound! So it takes about 5 sec. to 
> watch LiveTV. This
> can't be normal or? When I'm using VDR there is no gap, i can 
> watch tv
> without waiting!
> 
> 2) SWITCHING CHANNEL WHILE WATCHING LIVE TV
> Same Problem as above. If I'm watching LiveTV and wanna switch to 
> anotherchannel, i press CH+ ... then 2 sec.  nothing happends, 
> then there is 3 sec.
> a slow picture without sound, and then after 5 sec. there is a 
> picture with
> normal speed and sound! So it takes 5 sec. to change the channel!! 
> Thiscan't be normal, with TVTime oder VDR it take less then 1 
> second, why take's
> it so long in mythtv??
> 
> 3) CHANGE TO PROGRAMM GUIDE
> When i wanna switch to the programm-guide (from Watching LiveTV 
> oder from
> the menu, problem is the same) i have a lag of 10 sec. !!!!!!!!!! 
> This will
> mean, when i watch livetv and press the button to show the 
> programm-guide,
> nothing happends for 10 sec.!!! I only see the normal LiveTV and 
> after 10
> sec. mythtv is switching to the programm-guide, the same if i press
> programm-guide in the main-menu. it take always about 10 sec.!!! 
> Why is this
> so?
> 
> So, now my questions! How can i change this things? Is this a general
> Problem of mythtv? Or must i change the settings somewhere?
> 
> Before you ask, here is my hardware:
> Athlon 1100XP, 512 MB RAM, 70 GB HD (udma5 mode is set!!!) & 200 
> GB (udma
> set too, so both HD's can't be faster, so dont say use HDPARM, i 
> do!!),Geforce4MX graphic-Card 32MB, WinTV Nexus-s DVB-Card (full-
> featured card
> with decoder onboard), SB Live! 5.1. Software is Fedora Core 2, 
> and mythtv
> 0.16 via yum!
> So please tell me whats wrong here! With this lags of 5 and 10 
> seconds its
> no fun to watch live tv!!! With other tools such as tvtime or vdr 
> there are
> no lags, why they are here? Or is my hardware to slow?? don't 
> think so,
> because i have a full-featured dvb card!
> 
> Hmmm, please help me!
> Eine Antwort in deutsch wäre noch besser, da ich aus Deutschland 
> komme.
> 
> Thank to all
> 
> Chris
> 
> 
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