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Thanks for the reply again mm, very appreciated! Sorry for not being too keen into the spdif change, don't want to be annoying because of it. Just that spdif will give better quality result and would love to take advantage of it. In the end, if I have to switch back to stereo, I will but would love to use spdif if we can make it work! However, the post you linked was quite welcome actually as it explains alot and has more facts than what I had initially found. I initially thought that I had heard everything about that issue about 6 months ago when I spent entire nights trying to get more info about the spdif issue but that post is a welcome change. Sorry for not having found it. I must say that since I work 50 hours/week these days, I didn't have all the time in the world to start searching again. Just now I am back from work and after writing this post, its gonna be sleep time for me. So apologies for not having done excessive searches prior to this post. As for a solution, as said in the post you linked, it appears quite difficult to detect the complete channel change. However how about controlling it manually instead? Automatic detection is nice but manual can be equally good in this case and potentially much less complicated. I know that 10 seconds is enough for a channel change (including HD to SD switch) and it is very unlikely for that to change (unless I have to change STB for example) so how about I get to tell the server to ignore any feeds coming from the card for a good 10 seconds after doing a channel change? That way, the server would pretty much only see stable signal from start to finish with perfect audio and video feed. That option could be displayed in the colossus's property page in the tvserver configs. It could even be used in other situations as a diagnostic tool or fallback solution in case of channel change failiures. Could that be a good solution/workaround to the issue? Again thanks for taking the time to help with this issue, very appreciated!!
Thanks for the reply again mm, very appreciated!
Sorry for not being too keen into the spdif change, don't want to be annoying because of it. Just that spdif will give better quality result and would love to take advantage of it. In the end, if I have to switch back to stereo, I will but would love to use spdif if we can make it work!
However, the post you linked was quite welcome actually as it explains alot and has more facts than what I had initially found. I initially thought that I had heard everything about that issue about 6 months ago when I spent entire nights trying to get more info about the spdif issue but that post is a welcome change. Sorry for not having found it. I must say that since I work 50 hours/week these days, I didn't have all the time in the world to start searching again. Just now I am back from work and after writing this post, its gonna be sleep time for me. So apologies for not having done excessive searches prior to this post.
As for a solution, as said in the post you linked, it appears quite difficult to detect the complete channel change. However how about controlling it manually instead? Automatic detection is nice but manual can be equally good in this case and potentially much less complicated. I know that 10 seconds is enough for a channel change (including HD to SD switch) and it is very unlikely for that to change (unless I have to change STB for example) so how about I get to tell the server to ignore any feeds coming from the card for a good 10 seconds after doing a channel change? That way, the server would pretty much only see stable signal from start to finish with perfect audio and video feed. That option could be displayed in the colossus's property page in the tvserver configs. It could even be used in other situations as a diagnostic tool or fallback solution in case of channel change failiures.
Could that be a good solution/workaround to the issue?
Again thanks for taking the time to help with this issue, very appreciated!!
