[mythtv-users] Why does going to live TV take so long?

[William]

Just shooting from the hip here. Could the long delay have something to do
with the amount of data thats buffered before writing it to the hard drive?
If the system buffers 1 meg of data before writing it to the disk then it
could take several seconds to accumulate the needed data. I know when my
system is recording a program (pvr-250) the drive light flashes about once
every 2-3 seconds which means that somewhere the system is buffering large
amounts of data. I am not linux savy enough to figure out where that might
be but my system is saving to a LVM group running the XFS file system.

Would it be possible to reduce the amount of info buffered on the write
cycle? Read buffering is probably a good idea.


Bill