[mythtv-users] delay in viewing live TV?

[Matt Vollmar]

I may be totally mistaken, since I don't have a PVR-X50, but can't you
just run 'mplayer /dev/video0' or something like that?  I mean, it is
just an mpeg2 stream, right?  It won't hurt to try anyway, and then you
don't have to deal with the buffering issues.

Matt

On Sat, 2004-09-25 at 11:05 -0400, Tom E. Craddock, Jr. wrote:
> James Jones wrote:
> 
> > OK. I finally have my wife set up with MythTV, with a PVR 250.
> >
> > Apparently MythTV does some disk buffering, even of live TV. Is that 
> > inherent in MythTV, or in the video card I'm using? (Were it not a PVR 
> > 250, I'd point her at one of the other TV viewing programs, but they 
> > apparently expect data in a format other than the 250 emits.)
> >
> >    James Jones
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> James,
> 
> To take advantage of MythTVs features, it has to buffer Live TV. If you 
> want to rewind and catch something, or pause/ff, there has to be 
> something buffered in memory for Myth, or any other PVR software that 
> allows for this sort of thing.  If she just wants to watch TV thru her 
> PC and not have any PVR software, if shes on windows, you can get 
> Happauges WinTV program from their website.
> 
> 
> Tom E. Craddock, Jr.
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