Sure, I'll add it John Molohan wrote: > On 05/03/2010 3:55, Dan Schmidt wrote: >> 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 > Hi Dan, > > Thanks for the post, very handy info to know. If you could add it to > the wiki page that would be great. http://doc.freevo.org/Analogueivtv > > John >
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