2018-03-05, 03:30
This is propably not specfic to VNSI/VDR, but as it occurs only in Live TV and since there is no general PVR section I thought I might tryi my luck here. Please move this thread to different section if appropriate.
I also tested this with two different skins (Confluence and Estuary) to make sure it is not a single skin issue.
What I observe is that when I set 'Show channel info when switching channels' in PVR settings to anything > 0 secs it seems to (significantly) delay channel switching; sometimes up to several seconds. This seems due to the previously reported fact that the channel info is initially displayed with an empty text and then populated with the actual channel info which also delays appearing of the Live TV stream.
Furthermore, while the info box appears for the set amount of time, the actual info appears for much less time due to the delay, making it sometimes unreadable in the remaining seconds.
I've now set 'Show channel info' to 'off' and channel switching is acceptably fast. Not sure if the appearance of the info text can be accelerated, however, I think it is not meant to delay bringing up the live tv stream.
If I remember correctly from previous releases, e.g. Kodi 17, the correct channel info was displayed instantly and zapping was without delay. Looks like it is handled differently in Kodi 18.
I also tested this with two different skins (Confluence and Estuary) to make sure it is not a single skin issue.
What I observe is that when I set 'Show channel info when switching channels' in PVR settings to anything > 0 secs it seems to (significantly) delay channel switching; sometimes up to several seconds. This seems due to the previously reported fact that the channel info is initially displayed with an empty text and then populated with the actual channel info which also delays appearing of the Live TV stream.
Furthermore, while the info box appears for the set amount of time, the actual info appears for much less time due to the delay, making it sometimes unreadable in the remaining seconds.
I've now set 'Show channel info' to 'off' and channel switching is acceptably fast. Not sure if the appearance of the info text can be accelerated, however, I think it is not meant to delay bringing up the live tv stream.
If I remember correctly from previous releases, e.g. Kodi 17, the correct channel info was displayed instantly and zapping was without delay. Looks like it is handled differently in Kodi 18.