On Thu, 02 Jul 2009 13:28:05 +0200, Michał Sawicz <[email protected]> wrote: > Dnia 2009-07-02, czw o godzinie 13:44 +0300, [email protected] pisze: >> Now, just wanted to voice in at this point, that channel changing >> speed is >> of great importance to some of us old-school tv-watchers. Here's hopig >> that >> this can be made a priority, maybe gstreamer is flexible enough that >> it can >> stream the stream to the player as soon as possible and only after >> that >> start thinking about recording it... > > Yes it is something I've thought about. The problem is, though, that > when you stream directly from the tuner you miss the ability to do > TimeShifting which is IMO much more important than channel switching is.
What does timeshifting mean? I mean, you can pause tv in vdr aswell, in which case it starts recording the stream. But does timeshifting mean that you must also be able to rewind the stream i.e. record-as-default, I don't know... > Again, most of the users that found out the possibilities a good PVR > gives them almost stopped watching LiveTV. Why? Commercials, having to > remember when something's on and sit by the tv and wait for it... And > probably some more reasons could be thought of. Well, I'm a long time pvr user who still predominantly watches LiveTV... > Still, slow channel switching may turn users down before they even see > what PVRs give them. I think it could be possible to copy the stream > taken from the tuner and record it while simultaneously streaming live > to the user. Then, if a user presses pause or rewind or whatever, the > streaming would switch from live stream to the recording. Again, when > fast forwarded till the end of the recording, the live stream could be > switched back on. I even think a STB I have laying around does exactly > that. This would be ideal... > I don't think it should be a priority, though... It's a lot of work to > please not a whole lot of users. ... and here's where we disagree ... :) juhis
