Speed: TV2 or TV3 (1 Viewer)

[revs]

Qucik question: Which is fastest - TV2 or TV3?

Whicch changes channels fastest? does one perform quicker than the other? Is one les resource intensive? etc

Thanks!

I'm happily running TV2, but its just feeling a bit sluggish - so anything that speeds it up is good! I guess I could look into a new CPU and more ram, but my moneys all going on a big TV and surround sound

 

[Frodo]

why not test it yourself?

Frodo

 

[revs]

Well I have only a "production" machine, which is running TV2 as I want it, and I relly dont want to mess it up!

I had a quick go at installing and using TV3, but i couldnt get the tv channels showing.

Basically, if it was a known fact that TV3 was quite a lot faster then I would probably risk changing my setup, and spending time sorting it all out.

I guess I could stick in a second hard drive, reinstall windows and then TV3 - it just would have been easier to have a "yes ts faster" or "no not really" answer...

thanks anyway.

 

[Frodo]

in my opinion:
- tv3 is faster (especially with the new tsreader.ax filter)
- supports hdtv

then again:
- does not support as much analog cards as TV2
- for some people its less stable then TV2

Frodo

 

[infinite.loop]

you might should have a look at the wiki too

TV-Engines comparison

 

[revs]

Thanks Frodo.

I think ill take a look once 0.2.3 is out and the GF is not about to complain about why the TV isnt working

 

[S.O.P]

I've tried 0.2.2, 0.2.3 RC1, latest SVNs and TV3. The amount of trouble I've had and the earbashing from the wife, I just leave a stock RC1 install on the computer. Nothing breaks, nothing changes and it seems to work for what I/the wife needs it for.

TV3 I had timeshift issues, laptop wouldn't stream smoothy and would hang, couldn't get xmltv to work properly, latest svns (with MyTV 0.2 as well) I would get 100% CPU on 1080i sources among other things.

I think the premise behind TV3 is absolutely awesome, some of the features are really handy, but until it reaches a stable release I will leave the bug testing up to others. The wife hates it when I'm tweaking it constantly trying to get it to work properly.

RC1 is simple and it works.

 

[charnov]

Since TV3 doesn't support my cards (ATI 550's), I don't have much choice

 

[bobbyd87]

Since TV3 doesn't support my cards (ATI 550's), I don't have much choice

http://mantis.team-mediaportal.com/view.php?id=1082

its been fixed

TV3 seems faster for me but is a bit buggy with channel changes sometimes (havent tried the new filter yet though)

 

[charnov]

Since TV3 doesn't support my cards (ATI 550's), I don't have much choice

http://mantis.team-mediaportal.com/view.php?id=1082

its been fixed

TV3 seems faster for me but is a bit buggy with channel changes sometimes (havent tried the new filter yet though)

Awesome! Thanks for the update. I'll go and give it a try!