Yes, after some thought I'm sticking with it until:<br><br>1) 0.19.1 is released<br>2) Dapper Drake with 0.19 binary packages is out<br><br>I'll just have to get the EPG 2 XMLTV working and hope that the new DVB EPG support in
0.19 does clash too much.<br><br>Thanks,<br><br>J1M.<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 4/6/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Paul Hampton</b> <<a href="mailto:paul.hampton@gmail.com">paul.hampton@gmail.com</a>> wrote:
</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><div style="direction: ltr;">I'm having some problems with DVB-T and 0.19 so I'd advise you to hold fire. Basically, I can no longer watch anything recorded in mpeg2, I have to wait for it to be transcoded to mpeg4 first. There's some great stuff in
0.19
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On 06/04/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">RoboJ1M</b> <
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Even easier with DVB, as the live feed is already encoded.<br>But I imagine we have over simplified somewhat.<br><br>I've just got 0.18 working, using the ubuntu breezy package.<br><br>I'm very tempted by upgrading, but the thing is...
<br><br>...it's working.<br><br>Well, I can watch TV, I need the EPG2XMLTV soft next, although I notice this is native in 0.19<br>And that the live tv has had a major re-write.<br><br>Argh, tempting. And I have a working build enviroment..
<br><br>But you <span style="font-style: italic;">know</span> everything will stop working the second I touch it.<br>I mean, all of the plugins are packages too, they're going to break too arn't they?<br><br>J1M.</div><div style="direction: ltr;">
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<span class="gmail_quote">On 4/6/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Randy Robertson</b> <<a href="mailto:rmrobert@usc.edu" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">rmrobert@usc.edu</a>> wrote:
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As far as I know, all the TV cards can change channels fast (verify by<br>using tvtime or some plain tv viewer), the problem is that in order to<br>have seamless livetv pausing/ff/rw, etc, you are really watching a pre<br>
encoded stream that was saved so you are few seconds behind live, so<br>changing channels means buffering this up again, and it takes the 2-3<br>seconds that you are behind live tv when you change channels.<br><br>With a hypothetically fast enough computer, I don't see why you can't
<br>dump the video data from the card to shared memory, and have one<br>thread playing "live" (without anywhere near 2-3seconds delay) and<br>have another thread doing the encoding. Then, if you do pause- when
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you resume, do so from the encoded version, and when ever you change a<br>channel go back to the "live" video dump.<br><br>The process used to be even slower, since changing channels involved<br>more overhead with the old ring buffer method. So, if you aren't
<br>already- make sure you are running 0.19.<br><br>I'd also be interested in knowing how commerical PVRs, like the TIVO<br>deal with this issue. I assume they can change channels<br>instantaneously, but maybe not?<br><br>
For now, the preferred method for channel "surfing" is to use the OSD<br>to quickly view channel info, without pressing "enter" until you find<br>the one you want. Or use the guide. But of course, you don't know if
<br>the show is on commercial, etc. until you switch.<br><br>Even if my method above isn't possible for some reasons I don't<br>understand, it should be fairly trivial to quickly change channels if<br>you have two tuners, and don't mind having them both in use on one
<br>channel. Just encode the channel with one tuner, and watch it "live"<br>ala tvtime as described above.<br><br>On 4/6/06, RoboJ1M <<a href="mailto:jim.neave@googlemail.com" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">
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<br>> Damn, thats a shame.<br>><br>> At £33 that's only £100 for 3 tuners!<br>><br>> + 3 free IR receivers and controllers!<br>><br>> Is it a complete no hoper? Meaning that it's a hardware limitation?
<br>><br>> J1M.<br>><br>><br>> On 4/6/06, Michael Fox <<a href="mailto:fox.michael@gmail.com" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">fox.michael@gmail.com</a>> wrote:
<br>> > On 4/6/06, Jim Neave <<a href="mailto:jim.neave@googlemail.com" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">
jim.neave@googlemail.com</a>> wrote:<br>> > ><br>> > > Is that normal?<br>> > ><br>> ><br>> > Its normal.<br>> ><br>> > I use VP-3020C tuners and it does the same thing.
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