How fast is your channel switching? (1 Viewer)

[olafett]

15 seconds with mediaportals own codecs. Timeshift buffer is shown on channel change as well so TV is not working very well right now.

tested some other codecs and the time is not affected at all.

 

[TheGermanChe]

I can recomend setting up a RamDrive for the TimeShift buffer. I cut down my channelchange time from 5 sec to between 2-3 seconds.

 

[tourettes]

I can recomend setting up a RamDrive for the TimeShift buffer. I cut down my channelchange time from 5 sec to between 2-3 seconds.

Then there has been something wrong with your HD. The amount of time that MP / TVE3 spends on accessing the hard disk during channel change is almost non-existent. Just have a look on the TsReader.log, it will take few milliseconds for it to do the seeking operation. Today's (or even 5 year old) hard disks aren't the bottleneck.

In other words if HW and OS is working as they should, using a RAM disk won't shorten the channel change times more than few milliseconds.

 

[TheGermanChe]

I know that it should not make a big difference, but before i set up the RamDrive i tested to change the timeshift buffer between three different HDD´s. In my case the RamDrive really makes a difference

 

[psykoman]

I can recomend setting up a RamDrive for the TimeShift buffer. I cut down my channelchange time from 5 sec to between 2-3 seconds.

Then there has been something wrong with your HD. The amount of time that MP / TVE3 spends on accessing the hard disk during channel change is almost non-existent. Just have a look on the TsReader.log, it will take few milliseconds for it to do the seeking operation. Today's (or even 5 year old) hard disks aren't the bottleneck.

In other words if HW and OS is working as they should, using a RAM disk won't shorten the channel change times more than few milliseconds.

I second that. Tried it, it mad absolutely no difference with HD or RAMDrive.