Hello ! On Sat, 2006-04-08 at 04:10 -0700, CR wrote: > Hi all, > > I don't want this to seem ungrateful or overly critical, but I find when I > use vdr-xine (not even network vdr-xine) there is an additional 2-5 second > latency on-top of normal delays before channel changes show up in the > window. With softedevice, there is almost no delay, channel changes occur > <=1.5 seconds. > > I've disabled all vdr-xine buffering (through OSD), hysteresis, etc, but > the delay still persists. > > In fact, when I change channels, in the terminal that launched vdr, I can > see "vv" and other messages 2-4 seconds after the log indicates a channel > change. > Have you tried xineliboutput plugin with xine ? At least for me (DVB-C), it has channel switching time < 1 sec and seek time < .25 sec (if I can even measure that). Even with network, channel switching is almost same ; just seeks are ~.5 sec. - Petri