2012-04-13, 01:45 AM
When I watch Live TV, I rarely pause or rewind. Having the option to turn off Live TV buffering would allow NPVR to work like the old GBPVR "Live TV".
Why would I want to turn off buffering? Two reasons:
1. when watching some sports, I find my Live TV video to be a little bit jittery... not jerky, just not totally smooth. I think this MAY be because the overhead of recording the buffer results in some CPU starvation that results in not-totally-smooth live TV. There could be other reasons, but I did not find this jittery behaviour with GBPVR. This brings me to my second reason for wanting to turn off the Live TV buffer.
2. I use my PC for other tasks (on a second monitor) while watching Live TV. Those other tasks also consume valuable CPU cycles, and read/write from the hard drive. I have encountered situations where my CPU is running consistently between 95% and 100% due to other (unrelated) background tasks running while also trying to watch Live TV. It would help both my Live TV viewing and my other (non-NPVR) processing if I had the option of turning off the buffering.
This seems to me, perhaps naively, as if it should be an easy option to bring back. Since NPVR is actually doing two things at once in "Live TV", i.e. it is both displaying the true live feed (through all the processes that entails) and recording to the buffer (through the processes that entails), is it not fairly simple to just give an option to disable the buffering and its processes?
My system is a Dell Vostro 1320, Core 2 Duo 2.4 GHz, running 32-bit Vista. I am using a Hauppauge WinTV-HVR 950q and viewing and/or recording analog NTSC (cable) only.
Many thanks for considering this.
Why would I want to turn off buffering? Two reasons:
1. when watching some sports, I find my Live TV video to be a little bit jittery... not jerky, just not totally smooth. I think this MAY be because the overhead of recording the buffer results in some CPU starvation that results in not-totally-smooth live TV. There could be other reasons, but I did not find this jittery behaviour with GBPVR. This brings me to my second reason for wanting to turn off the Live TV buffer.
2. I use my PC for other tasks (on a second monitor) while watching Live TV. Those other tasks also consume valuable CPU cycles, and read/write from the hard drive. I have encountered situations where my CPU is running consistently between 95% and 100% due to other (unrelated) background tasks running while also trying to watch Live TV. It would help both my Live TV viewing and my other (non-NPVR) processing if I had the option of turning off the buffering.
This seems to me, perhaps naively, as if it should be an easy option to bring back. Since NPVR is actually doing two things at once in "Live TV", i.e. it is both displaying the true live feed (through all the processes that entails) and recording to the buffer (through the processes that entails), is it not fairly simple to just give an option to disable the buffering and its processes?
My system is a Dell Vostro 1320, Core 2 Duo 2.4 GHz, running 32-bit Vista. I am using a Hauppauge WinTV-HVR 950q and viewing and/or recording analog NTSC (cable) only.
Many thanks for considering this.