Pause or latency between channel changes in livetv

[kennyu]

I just installed gbpvr w/ PVR-250 and like everything about the program except the 3 second pause that it takes to change the channel in live tv. Essentially the screen freezes for three seconds when a new channel is selected and then the new channel starts playing. Is there any way to lessen this pause? Would using a different software decoder help?

I tried the trial versions of two other pvr programs - one had almost no latency and the other had about a three second delay. Both supported pausing live tv. So I know it is possible to have quick channel changes and still be able to pause live tv - just not sure whether or not gbpvr supports this.

I'm running an athlon 2600 at 2300 Mhz

[sub]

Its never going to be super fast because the way I do things to maintain compatibility with MVP/PVR350/XCard, but if you're running XP SP1 or higher, you can improve things quite a bit by enabling the 'use SBE if available' option.

[kennyu]

thanks for the response, I'll try your suggestion.