Speeding up channel switching using multiple cards

[hohums]

"When you have selected Live TV from the main menu, the TV picture of your first channel will be shown after a slight pause while the recording of the channel is started." Wiki

Would it be possible to speed up channel switching by automaticly switching to a free tv card tunner when channel switching? Recording cleanup for the other channel could be kept running or stopped on a low pioritiory thread. With suggestion 2 TV cards you could quickly switch back to the previous channel. With 3 cards you could predict and prepare the next channel (if channel scrolling).

Also is it possible to timeshift on multiple channels? (ie I pause one channel, switch to another channel, when an advert pops up I switch over to the original, unpause and continue watching that.)

On and one more idea. What about in preview mode we have the option to auto-start timeshifting on a low thread after not chaning a channel for a few seconds (when it comes on line, some sort of small indicator could appear).

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Would it be possible to speed up channel switching by automaticly switching to a free tv card tunner when channel switching? Recording cleanup for the other channel could be kept running or stopped on a low pioritiory thread. With suggestion 2 TV cards you could quickly switch back to the previous channel. With 3 cards you could predict and prepare the next channel (if channel scrolling).

Yuck. No, we wont be doing that.

On and one more idea. What about in preview mode we have the option to auto-start timeshifting on a low thread after not chaning a channel for a few seconds (when it comes on line, some sort of small indicator could appear).

The problem with this is that live preview mode runs in the client process (gbpvr.exe) whereas timeshift needs to run in the recording service. So its not possible to do both.

[sireddie]

Reviving this thread in hope that something like this could be implemented sometime in the future.

The idea of having near instant (like 0.1 sec) channel changes would be awesome. I understand there could be technical difficulties in implementing such a feature but it would be a killer feature setting the software apart from it's competitors.

As you currently can record multiple streams with multiple tuners, wouldn't hohums' scenario above be possible?

Let's say you have a 4 tuner card, recording on 1 channel, then there would be 3 tuners available for channel switching. 1 for the current channel, 1 for the next channel, and 1 for the previous channel.

Cheers

[SickBoy]

That would assume that your default channel changing behavior is linear through the EPG. I don't know about most other people, but having several hundred channels and an available EPG to browse has effectively cured me of that.

Not saying it isn't a nice idea, I am just not sure there's any way to implement it.

[stustunz]

Pvr get it stop surfing and record

[sireddie]

Maybe it's me just starting to use a PVR for the first time and not being used to the new way of watching TV, but even once used to it, I'm sure I'll enjoy "surfing" channels one by on when just trying to find something quickly to watch.

Maybe this is just one of those "just because you can" things, but I'm thinking once someone does it, every one else will follow and it will become the norm. One at least day (I hope)

[Jaggy]

I can honestly say I have not watch any (as in zilch, zero, nada) live TV for at least two years & I would be more than surprised if I had seen more than six hours (most of that would be when we were visiting others) in the last seven or eight years since I started using GB-PVR.... I have enough recorded programs sitting waiting to be watched to keep me going for at least a year without recording any thing from this moment on, so live tv problems/wishes to me just seems like a total waste of sub's precious time.

[mvallevand]

I hate watching recorded sports and I really must watch it live. It's 40 years since I just spun the dial looking for something to watch, so 2-5 seconds doesn't bother me when I know I can pause an rewind.

Martin

[Jaggy]

Even for live sports events I just set them up as a recording & then start watching the in progress recording after it has been going for around half an hour (or after a couple of hours for the Bathurst motor race which is about eight hours long) this way I can skip the adds & end up finishing at around the same time as the actual game finishes.

[stustunz]

Personally I think it changes pretty quick faster than my tvs do on digital stations
If yours doesn't maybe try buying a quicker pc