You would have to enable/disable this on the fly, for channel surfing. it's obviously only workable for incremential surfing in one direction (going up, or going down).
This would also be useful for switching channels back and forth (aka, hitting the 'last' button)... but you would probably be recording anyway. On Thu, 02 Dec 2004 15:25:28 -0800, Cecil Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, > > Michael Starks wrote: > > >I had an idea about how the delay might be reduced when changing > >channels. In a 2+ tuner system, can one tuner "leapfrog" the other and > >start buffering the next or previous channel, depending on the direction > >the user is surfing? > > > >For example, I start at channel three. > >Tuner two starts buffering channel four. > > > > > What if what I want to switch to is channel 7? > > >I go to channel four and start reading the buffer. > >Tuner 1 starts buffering channel five. > > > > > > > What if I want to go to channel 71? > > >Would this work? > > > > > > > Just my 2 cents... > > Cecil > > > _______________________________________________ > mythtv-users mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users > > >
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