How to completely disable/de-install timeshift?

[einstein72]

Originally Posted by infinityloop

noone forces you to use the TV-Server.
if you dont like it, dont install it and just continue to use the inbuild engine of 1.0 RC1.

If 1.0 RC1 wouldn't be slower than 0.2.3, that would be an option. Besides that, for some reason 1.0 RC1 behaves different to ffdshow deinterlacing.

Originally Posted by infinityloop

fine with me, good luck.

Thanks. No hard feelings, but I'm getting to old for all this twitching and turning with settings and stuff. For me it just has to work (at least after some time).

Regards.

[infinityloop]

Originally Posted by einstein72

If 1.0 RC1 wouldn't be slower than 0.2.3, that would be an option. Besides that, for some reason 1.0 RC1 behaves different to ffdshow deinterlacing.

1.0 RC1 is not slower in any way then 0.2.3.0 (at least not for me, and i have not heard other reports)

ffdshow i would never use for mpeg2. every test of this resulted in realy poor image quality.
the only codec which gets me a decent image quality without major glitches, is MPV.
yes i know about the AR (AspectRatio) issue, but this does not bug me at all, it just works.

as you can read in our knowledge base, other codecs then MPA can cause some serious issues when watching TV or videos.
but there is also one case with special TV-channels, where MPA doesnt work (well, no other commercial codec works also....)

so the challange these days is to find THE CODEC (which causes the less issues) .
i can say that i tested "all" the major codecs which are available these days, and after this i decided to ignore the AR bug in MPV and stick with MPV/MPA/coreavc simply because they just work for me.


regarding TV-Server:
you can not break it down to "client/server" architecture, because this is just "one feature".
there are many improovements compared to the inbuild TV-engine (which uses MS SBE), which makes the TV-Server far superior.
for the usability there is absolutely no difference.
once your are inside MyTV, you do not even notice that you use an "stand alone tv-service". except for such cool features like "multitune", or that recordings are done even when you leave MyTV and close MP. etc.
TV-Engines comparison

[einstein72]

Even without the codec woes, I still encounter the dreadfull 'Unable to start timeshifting. No video/audio detected' when trying to swap channels on my FloppyDTV and 1.0 RC1, a real showstopper. For some reason this problem is not there in version 0.2.3. (same pc, same codecs)

[infinityloop]

Originally Posted by einstein72

I still encounter the dreadfull 'Unable to start timeshifting. No video/audio detected' when trying to swap channels on my FloppyDTV and 1.0 RC1

my live system uses MP 1.0 RC1 + svn build from 2008.05.10 with the following tv-cards

• Hauppauge Nova-T (USB Stick)
• floppyDTV-S
• floppyDTV-S2
• skystar2 (with latest RC bda drivers)

i can say that my system is heaviely used the whole day by my wife and the kids (because they are ill since 2 weeks, the usage has increased even more ).

i have not encountered a single "Unable to start timeshifting. No video/audio detected" since..... i would say 6 months.
if you have a decent bugreport somewhere with logs from that issue, then i can take a look.

[einstein72]

Originally Posted by infinityloop

i have not encountered a single "Unable to start timeshifting. No video/audio detected" since..... i would say 6 months.
if you have a decent bugreport somewhere with logs from that issue, then i can take a look.

I will post one when I'm back from work.

Regards.