Pauses at programme ends

Bubster · #1 03-02-2004, 09:19 AM

Has anyone also experienced the pause at the end of programmes when watching live tv? I haven't seen any mention of it in the forums, but I'd be surprised to find I'm the only one getting it.

Basically, when the end of a programme is reached (and the tuner is staying on the same channel) there is a reasonably long pause (up to 3 or 4 seconds) before live tv continues. The only thing I can attribute it is to the closing of the current mpeg file and the starting of a new one. The problem never occurs if I am watching later than real time or watching a completely unrelated recording.

I don't generally watch completely live tv that much now (since Sage lets me watch what I want when I want), so it's not a show-stopper, but it would be good to eliminate the problem if possible.

I'm not sure if it's specific to the beta version, as I didn't run 1.4 for very long before upgrading. The problem seems to exist on all beta versions from 2.0.11 onwards though.

Anybody have any ideas?

- Neil.

mlbdude · #2 03-02-2004, 09:23 AM

The pause is generated by closing and opening a new MPEG2 stream. It has always been in there. This is pretty normal for PVR's.

Opus4 · #3 03-02-2004, 09:26 AM

It has definitely been talked about in the forums & the pause varies from system to system. You'll get the same pause when you change channels in live TV.

- Andy

reverse · #4 03-02-2004, 09:29 AM

I've seen up to 11 second pauses and just recently realized if I hit FF in the middle of the pause, it starts playing again.

mlbdude · #5 03-02-2004, 09:49 AM

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I've seen up to 11 second pauses and just recently realized if I hit FF in the middle of the pause, it starts playing again.

Now that is NOT normal

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Bubster · #6 03-02-2004, 10:10 AM

It looks like it's an issue with reading a stream that has just been started, probably because there isn't enough data there to start decoding from it yet.

But surely this can be solved by maintaining a sliding window of mpeg data which overlaps the two streams and running the playback from there? I'm not saying that it's necessarily easy to do, but I would expect it to be possible.

- Neil.

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