On Tue, Oct 18, 2005 at 03:32:41PM +0800, W.Kenworthy wrote: > The alternative view: in Australia (Perth) the program info is lousy, > missing or plain wrong.
I'm in Melbourne, and I find the ninemsn scraper (from http://immir.com/tv_grab_au) is pretty good. My only complaint is that it doesn't know movies from regular programs. But the ninemsn web page doesn't seem to have that info, either. > Channel surfing is where its at (we only have a small handful of > channels - not counting the dups), and the delays are a real pain My family hasn't yet gotten beyond channel surfing, and they find the delay annoying. In fact, most of the time they just switch to watching the TV directly (using the TV's tuner). Maybe that will change eventually, but it would still be nice to fix the slow channel change problem, for WAF reasons. I assume much of the slow channel change problem is due to the need to buffer a few seconds of programming before it can start to be shown. I don't think it takes 4 or 5 seconds for my DVB card to lock a channel. One thing that would probably help a little, at least psychologically, would be to grab a frame as soon as the tuner locks the station and display that until the buffer has enough program to start showing is normally. A better solution, if it's possible, would be to start showing frames as they're being written to the ring buffer, but employ the time stretching code to slow things down a bit (without distorting the voices), until the buffer has gotten far enough ahead to show the program normally. If the program is slowed by 20%, the buffer should get 4 seconds ahead in around 20 seconds, at which point the program could go to normal speed. This would be a bit annoying, but less so than a 4 or 5 second delay on channel changes. -- Peter Schachte Free trade is the weapon of the strong, [EMAIL PROTECTED] protectionism is the shield of the weak. www.cs.mu.oz.au/~schachte/ -- William Kaiser Phone: +61 3 8344 1338
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