When using live TV, why is there a delay between the moment I change the channel and the time the channel actually changes?
When you are watching live tv in Myth, you are actually watching content which has first been written as a file to the hard disk. In doing so, the ‘live TV’ that you are watching is actually TV that has been captured a few seconds beforehand. Whenever you change channel, the old file has to be removed and a new file created. The fact that this takes a couple of seconds is responsible for the gap you are seeing in between channel changes. Although this doesn’t sound too good, it is necessary to create this file so that you can do cool stuff such as pausing and rewinding live TV. The ‘approved’ method of using live TV is to use ‘browse mode’ so that you can see what is on any given channel without having to change to that channel itself. The other main answer to this query is that once you have MythTV, you’ll rarely use live TV anyway on the grounds that all you favourite programs will be sitting on the hard drive ready to watch. Of course if you do have any coding skills, there’s always
