Re: Delay changing channels

So does that mean the Emuzed Tuner is inferior in quality? Does anyone know
of any issues w/ Emuzed Tuners?????

"Michael J. Mahon" wrote:

From what has been written, I doubt that much of the delay is due
to processing speed.

For *directly* tuned channels (not STB setups), I'd be willing to bet
that it is a function of the tuner's response time, not the *system*.

-michael


DanDada wrote:
Jaime, my system is just as beefy, if not more... 2 gigs ram, intel 4 dual
core pro, etc etc. Well, I guess I'll have to learn to live w/ the delay if
there is not setting that can be adjusted in the registry etc. Arite thanx!

"Jaime" wrote:


I have a Hauppauge 150mce, which is what a lot of people use, and I don't
know if that affects it or not. As I said, this discussion has come up
before and most seem to think the second or two delay is inherent in the
system, but the way some have described it, they must be seeing much more
time between chaannels than I. As I said, when I flip channels, their is
only a very brief instant of blank screen. It's not as fast as an old TV
that didn't have all the filtering and cleanup circuitry that TVs have now,
but it really is no different delay than if I just have the TV running
directly from the cable.

BTW, I have my signal split with one directly into the coax on the TV and
one to the tuner. I have a Sempron 2600, 768M of RAM, a generic FX5200 video
card, and I use the nVidia DVD decoder. I don't know how much any of that
affects the delay in the system.
--
James
Orlando (Goofy says "Hey!"), Florida

"DanDada" <DanDada@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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dfeifer, thanks for the reply but i'm not sure we are talking about the
same
thing. Did you respond to my post by mistake?

Jaime, your post is on point. I don't have a set top box, I hava an
analog
cable, connected DIRECTLY to the tv tuner in my pc. The fact that you
don't
get any type of delay really gives me some hope now! My cable signal is
split between my main TV (different room) and my TV Tuner. If i take the
cable and connect it directly to the tv tuner (ie. no splitte), it makes
no
difference. What could the problem be???

Oh, what kind of TV Tuner do you have? Mine is an Emuzed Angel PCI. Could
it be a problem w/ this tuner?

"Jaime" wrote:


Out of curiosity, are you using a STB with your setup or analog cable
directly plugged in to the tuner card?

We've had this question come up before on the group and I'm not totally
convinced that it is the buffer causing the delay -- I have plain old
analog
cable plugged right into the PC and I have virtually no delay when I
surf.
The channel change at pretty much the same speed as when I am just
watching
the cable directly. I think some of the delay is MCE getting the signal
from
the remote, translating, and resending to the STB.
--
James
Orlando (Goofy says "Hey!"), Florida


"DanDada" <DanDada@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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JW, thanks. That explains the delay, but is there anyway to speed this
process up? I mean if one is changing channels constantly, isn't there
some
sort of "cached" info like that of IE for example. Not trying to be
difficult, but I want to make this as seamless as possible. If it
can't
be
done, this is something that definitly needs to be taken into
consideration
for future versions of MCE.....

"JW" wrote:


The delay is caused by MCE creating a new file in order to support a
TimeShift buffer for the new channel and not actually starting to show
the
new file until it can sucessfully issue a write command to the newly
created
file.

"DanDada" <DanDada@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Is there any way to avoid the delay when changing channels w/ MCE?
There
is
a 1 second delay going from one channel to another which gets to be
very
annoying when channel surfing. Does anyone have a workaround for
this
if
this is by design?

.

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