2007-05-10, 10:15
The picture above also shows the motion blur on the scrolling text at the bottom :-)
SandmanCL Wrote:Girlfriend arguments for why this still isn't as convenient as watching regular cable:The 15-seconds delay between switching channels could at least party be depend oo the cache-buffer set in XBMC setting, so try lowering the network video buffer (which I assume hdhomerun:// use?) to something really low (like 256KB) or even test disabling it completly and then try to "tune" in to different stations. This will probebely not solve the issue completly but it may speed it up some. Please repost your result with different cache settings.
- It takes ~ 15 seconds to "tune" to a station.
- We can't just select a stream to play it since DVDPlayer isn't default
elupus Wrote:That dvdplayer takes a while to start is probably because it probes the video stream to figure out what's in it before starting. I could potentially make it not probe the stream to start with, and force it to use mpeg-ts. should speed it up.
elupus Wrote:i've changed default player for hdhomerun streams to dvdplayer, and removed a analysing step in the startup of hdhomerun streams. should speed them up alot.