HELP US: Testing the new filter (2 Viewers)

[phunqe]

I see people are refering to the channel change times with tsreader as "blazingly fast". I just want to make sure there is nothing wrong with my installation, so what is "blazingly fast" for you? On my set top box the change is about 1-2s max, which I qualify as very good. However in MP it takes around 5s. Is 4-5s the normal change time for you guys as well?

 

[rtv]

I see people are refering to the channel change times with tsreader as "blazingly fast". I just want to make sure there is nothing wrong with my installation, so what is "blazingly fast" for you? On my set top box the change is about 1-2s max, which I qualify as very good. However in MP it takes around 5s. Is 4-5s the normal change time for you guys as well?

Might depend on the TV card and used codecs. E.g. with my Skystar2 I get < 1 second even if the stream changes from AC3 to Mpeg.

 

[Marcusb]

tourettes : Thanks for the fast reply. I can always use the vlc as a server on the tv-server machine but It seems that your solution handles the stream better.

Do you know any other lightweight clients that is preferable in order to solve my "problem"? Or do I need to use the mediaportal as a client on the other machines?

/Patrik

In the downloads section there is a TVClient app that basically just works with VLC to give you all the TV functions without running the whole MP Shebang. I haven't used it before so can't give much info.

 

[phunqe]

Any Swedish ComHem users that could tell me how long their channel change take with TsReader? Mine seem very slow with a FireDTV box.

 

[vuego]

I'm Swedish Comhem. Channel change takes 1-2s.

 

[phunqe]

Hmm, might be the FireDTV that is a bit slower then.

Are there any settings in TvServer or MP iteself that would speed up channel changes?

 

[Seidelin]

Hmm, might be the FireDTV that is a bit slower then.

Are there any settings in TvServer or MP iteself that would speed up channel changes?

Verify that rebuild graph on channel change are set to off.

Regards
Seidelin

 

[styriaman]

Hi,

It would be fine - if I had only a channel switching time issue. BTW for me its very fast (less than 1,5 sec) - on my single seat config with a SS2.

But I've still issues that after random channel switches (I'm a channel surfer)
a) the TV picture freezes
or
b) the TV picture starts from somewhere in the timeshift buffer without having the posibillity to jump to the end and start from the newly channel

In both cases only a off/on of the TV (function) helps. Maybe that has something to do with the filling of the whole timeshift buffer files (because I does not appear within e.g. the first hour of watching and zapping) or maybe if a bad video/audio package appears right after channel changing?

Joe

 

[Realkane]

Hi,
I tried multiseat and it doesn't work on my configuration (neigther on DVB-S or DVB-S2). The screen is blank, no sound, nothing. But the TV-Server selects the channel and starts timeshifting.

Christian

 

[phunqe]

Thanks for the channel change tip. I'll try that later on this week. However, I'm suspecting I will have issues since I switch a lot between non-AC3 and AC3 channels.