Client mode live TV viewing...

[jpatadia]

Hello,

I have been using GB-PVR for a while now with the Popcorn hour client, and it's been working great. [Granted, the install process is a bit hairy, but once you get past that, it seems to work just fine]

I recently tried out using GB-PVR with client-server mode, to see liveTV on one of my home machines as a client [Using streaming mode], and it seems to work fine. I did however notice two things:

a) It takes almost six seconds after you click on LiveTV in client mode before I can actually see the TV being displayed.

b) Channel changing is also extremely slow, taking six-seven seconds before I can view anything.

I have pretty good machines - a dual core Intel as the server as well a similar machine for the client, both with 2 gb ram on them. Then network is also a gigabit network, so bandwidth shouldn't be an issue.

Once the TV starts working, it seems to be smooth, but the channel changing / startup delay kind of makes this very annoying to use.

Any help in that matter would be highly appreciated.

Thanks,
Jalpesh.

PS: This is a great product sub, keep up the good work; with a few minor tweaks, it'll completely blow away the Windows Media Center app from the windows world.

[sub]

True, Live TV is pretty slow on client machines (though it changes channels faster with analog devices than digital device). Its not something I've put much effort into tuning. My primary reason for adding client server support was so that I could get at my recording on the main PC from my bedroom.