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<blockquote data-quote="Spaceboy" data-source="post: 1252884" data-attributes="member: 149549">Hi, this is a bit of an old thread but its most relevant to my question so i hope i can ask it here.i'm using mediaportal 1.19 as a &quot;dumb tuner&quot; for emby. i have created a m3u from each of the channel streaming urls and supplied that to emby which does all the streaming recording etc. This works brilliantly except channel load times are a little slower than i would like so i thought i'd investigate. the first thing i noticed when looking at the MP Extended logs is that it does take a consistent 6 seconds between the starting timeshifting and timeshifting succeeded steps. This seems consistent with the OP's observations on his channel start up times. But most respondents here suggested it might be other things in the chain between, for me, the satellite dish and the stream opening in any player. Well it might, but doesnt the log absolutely confirm that it is a build up of a buffer for timeshifting that is causing it?I hope i havent been too controversial as this seems a sensitive topic but obviously the main reason i'm here is i wanted to ask if there is anything i can do to minimise this startup time even if i can't disable timeshifting? this does seem to be a universal position, the only tv server software i've found that discusses disabling timeshifting is tvheadend, but i like MP.cheers</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Spaceboy, post: 1252884, member: 149549"] Hi, this is a bit of an old thread but its most relevant to my question so i hope i can ask it here. i'm using mediaportal 1.19 as a "dumb tuner" for emby. i have created a m3u from each of the channel streaming urls and supplied that to emby which does all the streaming recording etc. This works brilliantly except channel load times are a little slower than i would like so i thought i'd investigate. the first thing i noticed when looking at the MP Extended logs is that it does take a consistent 6 seconds between the starting timeshifting and timeshifting succeeded steps. This seems consistent with the OP's observations on his channel start up times. But most respondents here suggested it might be other things in the chain between, for me, the satellite dish and the stream opening in any player. Well it might, but doesnt the log absolutely confirm that it is a build up of a buffer for timeshifting that is causing it? I hope i havent been too controversial as this seems a sensitive topic but obviously the main reason i'm here is i wanted to ask if there is anything i can do to minimise this startup time even if i can't disable timeshifting? this does seem to be a universal position, the only tv server software i've found that discusses disabling timeshifting is tvheadend, but i like MP. cheers [/QUOTE]

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