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Hi Mew,thanks for the explanation, but I thought that MP is connecting to the TVserver over a RTSP-stream provided by TVserver - so no direct access to the timeshift buffers TS-file and no reason for the file itself either.If a temporary file for liveTV would be needed due to the architecture (for what reason ever), my opinion would be to keep that buffer-file at about 100 MB (configurable) and keep it directly in RAM (RAM-drive or maybe permanently preallocated on a small CF-card). If a user is pressing the pause-button and is activating timeshift, this buffer would be written to HDD and expanded according to the settings in configuration - so timeshifthandling would be the same then. In this case, you would not need much RAM and still get a pretty fast zapping experience, no disturbing HDD noise and also save some power.
Hi Mew,
thanks for the explanation, but I thought that MP is connecting to the TVserver over a RTSP-stream provided by TVserver - so no direct access to the timeshift buffers TS-file and no reason for the file itself either.
If a temporary file for liveTV would be needed due to the architecture (for what reason ever), my opinion would be to keep that buffer-file at about 100 MB (configurable) and keep it directly in RAM (RAM-drive or maybe permanently preallocated on a small CF-card). If a user is pressing the pause-button and is activating timeshift, this buffer would be written to HDD and expanded according to the settings in configuration - so timeshifthandling would be the same then. In this case, you would not need much RAM and still get a pretty fast zapping experience, no disturbing HDD noise and also save some power.
