someone more familiar with your type of capture card might be able to weigh in I have a Hauppauge PVR 350 and there is a lag time, think about 3 seconds, so I know that it is expected, like I said I don't have experience with your card, but 5 and 10 seconds seems a few seconds too long
----- Original Message ----- From: Christopher B�hm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Thursday, December 9, 2004 6:28 am Subject: [mythtv-users] BIG PROBLEM! Watching LiveTV is very slow !!!!! > Hello out there, > i hope someone here can help me. > First i must say: "i love mythtv", its very nice, but there are 3 BIG > PROBLEMS WITH THE SPEED!!! > > 1) WATCHING LIVE TV > If I am in the main-menu and i wanna watch liveTV i clicked the > button "TV" > and then there is 2 sec. only a black screen, then there comes a slow > picture without sound, and then after 3 more seconds there will be > picturesin normal speed with sound! So it takes about 5 sec. to > watch LiveTV. This > can't be normal or? When I'm using VDR there is no gap, i can > watch tv > without waiting! > > 2) SWITCHING CHANNEL WHILE WATCHING LIVE TV > Same Problem as above. If I'm watching LiveTV and wanna switch to > anotherchannel, i press CH+ ... then 2 sec. nothing happends, > then there is 3 sec. > a slow picture without sound, and then after 5 sec. there is a > picture with > normal speed and sound! So it takes 5 sec. to change the channel!! > Thiscan't be normal, with TVTime oder VDR it take less then 1 > second, why take's > it so long in mythtv?? > > 3) CHANGE TO PROGRAMM GUIDE > When i wanna switch to the programm-guide (from Watching LiveTV > oder from > the menu, problem is the same) i have a lag of 10 sec. !!!!!!!!!! > This will > mean, when i watch livetv and press the button to show the > programm-guide, > nothing happends for 10 sec.!!! I only see the normal LiveTV and > after 10 > sec. mythtv is switching to the programm-guide, the same if i press > programm-guide in the main-menu. it take always about 10 sec.!!! > Why is this > so? > > So, now my questions! How can i change this things? Is this a general > Problem of mythtv? Or must i change the settings somewhere? > > Before you ask, here is my hardware: > Athlon 1100XP, 512 MB RAM, 70 GB HD (udma5 mode is set!!!) & 200 > GB (udma > set too, so both HD's can't be faster, so dont say use HDPARM, i > do!!),Geforce4MX graphic-Card 32MB, WinTV Nexus-s DVB-Card (full- > featured card > with decoder onboard), SB Live! 5.1. Software is Fedora Core 2, > and mythtv > 0.16 via yum! > So please tell me whats wrong here! With this lags of 5 and 10 > seconds its > no fun to watch live tv!!! With other tools such as tvtime or vdr > there are > no lags, why they are here? Or is my hardware to slow?? don't > think so, > because i have a full-featured dvb card! > > Hmmm, please help me! > Eine Antwort in deutsch w�re noch besser, da ich aus Deutschland > komme. > > Thank to all > > Chris > > > _______________________________________________ > mythtv-users mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users > _______________________________________________ mythtv-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
