> Playing games with pre-buffering is probably a waste of time. > It's difficult to say where the person will go next (e.g. Change from > watching Channel 5 with Ch+-, Fav+-, Prev, '61', etc). A much more useful > approach was discussed a few weeks ago. It's possible (with an > ivtv-device) to get both the MPEG2 streamand the YUV stream at the same > time. WatchTV could use the raw YUV data in screen overlay (i.e. just > like xawtv), while still ringbuffering up the MPEG2 stream. If you hit > pause, it'll switch you to the recorded stream. If you change channels, > you'll only have to wait for the tuner card to sync to a new channel and > spit out YUV data.... fairly quick. > > Again, most people in the know enough to code this up don't care, > and I don't blame them. There are lots of other more important tweaks to > make. I wish I had time to play with it.
I think this idea is great! Nearly all people (besides us, of course...) use about 4 buttons on their TV remote. (1) Off/on, (2) *one* of the channel change buttons, (3) volume up, (4) volume down Fast livetv channel changing ability would certainly help people transition *to* MythTV and would definitely boost the initial WAF of MythTV. ...and more new users means more developers in training to work on more important tweaks:) -Ross
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