[mythtv-users] Freevo, Tivo & MythTV

[Brad DerManouelian]

On Nov 18, 2006, at 11:28 AM, Marco Nelissen wrote:

>> On Sat, 2006-11-18 at 10:57 -0800, Marco Nelissen wrote:
>>>> I've figured it out.
>>>>
>>>> Perhaps if everybody that uses MythTV gets exactly the same  
>>>> hardware,
>>>> we can optimize the code for that hardware like the tivo people do.
>>>>
>>>> Honestly, if you've experienced 17 seconds to start up live TV,  
>>>> that
>>>> sounds like an issue outside of the MythTV world.
>>>
>>> Except that on the very same hardware, I can use mplayer to go to  
>>> live
>>> TV in about 2 seconds. That puts the problem back in the mythtv- 
>>> world
>>> I would say.
>>
>> That's not the way I see it...
>>
>> mplayer reads directly from the card, so it's displaying unbuffered
>> input.
>>
>> MythTV, as a DVR, reads from the card, buffers it to disk, then plays
>> from the stored file, which is how you get DVR functionality.
>
> Sure, but the difference between the two is several seconds. There is
> really no reason to buffer THAT much data.

Seriously - 2-3 seconds for MOST users. If you are experiencing more,  
you have an issue that is not related to the MythTV software. That's  
why this discussion never goes anywhere except on and on and on in  
circles.