[mythtv-users] Channel zapping and the WAF

[Carl]

On Sunday January 11 2004 17:13, Kyle Rose wrote:
> > Point1) Zapping. I know that the whole point of the mythbox is to get
> > rid of stupid zapping. However since we are used to cabletv the
> > mythbox channel change speed decreases drastically with the
> > mythbox. After the signal is send the channel switches and then the
> > first picture of the new channel freezes for 2-5 seconds. Is this
> > normal behavior or are there any tweaks i can perform ?
>
> Probably not much.
>
...
> If you had a Tivo, you'd notice exactly the same behavior.  If you had
> DIRECTV, it would be even worse.  I've actually got the worst of both
> worlds: DIRECTV and MythTV. :)
>

Can you explain this a little more? I assume you refer to the fact that an 
external perl script has to run to change channels, but it seems to me that 
the time it takes to run the script is (should be) quite small compared to 
the 2 seconds required to fill the buffer from the new channel. Also, I would 
think that the decoder could keep busy with the old channel data during that 
time, so that there was no perceivable interruption. It might still take 2+x 
seconds to change channels, but with a "change in progress" OSD and a clean 
break on channel change, it should at least *feel* crisper.

On a minor related note, too bad Myth can't read the channel from the external 
tuner, to avoid those rare yet annoying times when the tuner and Myth are out 
of sync... 

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