I hope this was not mentioned before; I could not find it anywhere else. Hopefully, a bit of googling will lead others here who wish to change the small buffer size for tv.ivtv_xine_tv.
In the xine source code (input_pvr.c), we read: xine pvr:/<prefix_to_tmp_files>\!<prefix_to_saved_files>\!<max_page_age> What's this mean? We care about max_page_age which can increase the short buffer. Xine has this hard set to 3 in input_pvr.c. Each file it creates is 200 meg, so that's 600 meg total. In short, it doesn't amount to much pause time. If we want to change that number to 2 gig, some simple math would say that number should be 10. This is very easy to do, the change in local_conf.py would be: XINE_TV_TIMESHIFT_FILEMASK = "var/tmp/livepause\!\!10" Instead of 600 meg, we now have 2 gig of disk space devoted to pausing live television. Obviously, that 10 can be changed to anything you want. (However, last time I left live TV on, it seemed to crash my recording server when it tried to record. I'll look into that more before calling it a bug.) Also, as a side note, if your video device is not /dev/video0, I am told the solution is to edit the ~/.xine/config file and add a line as such : media.wintv_pvr.device:/dev/video2 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Download Intel® Parallel Studio Eval Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev _______________________________________________ Freevo-users mailing list Freevo-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freevo-users
