On Wed, 2005-02-23 at 04:52 -0500, Brad Benson wrote:
> On Wed, 23 Feb 2005 09:31:37 +0000, Chris Martin
> > Two ideas that I had on this subject:
> >
> > idea 1
> > Would it be technically possible to have an option to enable the PVR
> > functionality only once the pause button is pressed (i.e. only create
> > a buffer on pause)? You'd lose the ability to rewind through stuff
> > you'd just been watching , but it might work better for some people.
> >
>
> I'm not sure how well that would work, but the first thing that comes
> to mind is that if you don't create the buffer until the user presses
> the pause button then you absolutely can't pause on the same frame
> they were watching when the button was pressed (since it's already
> been displayed to the monitor and not written to disk). At best you
> could pause at the next frame, which is probably acceptable to most
> people, but this would really depend on the overhead required to open
> the new buffer file and start writing video to that file.
Would it be possible to still have the buffer, but just not fill it (as
much) before starting to play, i.e. only buffer a couple of frames so
the live stream is only 2-3 frames behind real-time rather than 3s
(75-90 frames depending on region?) -- until the user pauses or rewinds
etc...
(just a brain dump, I don't use live TV much anymore either)...
Ian.
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