On Tuesday 28 June 2005 06:46 am, Bryan Mayland wrote:
> Aaron Richardson wrote:
> >1) but I havent seen a good TV viewer program for the desktop.
>
>     I use MythTV but have it resized to run in a 640x480 window rather
> than take the full screen.  That's closer to what you want, but you're
> still not going to get the responsiveness you're looking for I think.
>

On my current windiws box I actually use 3 input devices for manipulating the 
tv.  RF remote (ATI), mouse, and keyboard.  The remote and mouse are the 2 
heavily used devices.  So, I really need a control panel for use with the 
mouse.

Plus mythv does not seem to resize on the fly.  A feature that gets used often 
on the windows box.  I can change the size in the config... but my wife would 
complain about it all the time...

I can resize the window in mplayer, but when I do it starts chopping off the 
picture.  It doesnt resize the image on being displayed.  It just shows you 
less of it.


thanks,
Aaron


> >2) I would like to be able to switch channels faster.  Right now running
> >0.3.6s it takes ~4 sec to change the channel.  I am a channel flipper.  I
> >need fast channel changes.  I should have probably done more research on
> > this before buying the pvr-500, but Im here now. :)
>
>     This is largely a MythTV problem.  If you're using mplayer and
> ptune.pl, you'll see that changing frequencies is actually pretty quick
> (although sometimes my mplayer slowly gets behind making it seem to take
> longer the longer I watch).  Myth runs a few seconds behind always, plus
> does a lot of extra work to switch channels like pausing and resetting.
> Even with a version that I've hacked which just does a frequency
> control, I'm still looking at 2+ seconds per channel due to the
> prebuffer.  I'm looking at ways to eliminate that as well.
>
> >3) Lastly I was wondering if it is possible to shrink the size of the
> > image to a smaller window.  I think this is what is being discussed (and
> > developed) in the threads about YUV, but Im not exactly sure thats what
> > YUV is.
>
>     Yeah that's just for the PVR350's tv out, mplayer will let you
> change the window size, or use mythtv's settings to run it in a window.
>
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