Picture in picture - jerky picture.

[rob588cliff]

Hi,

When I activate my PIP the smaller of the two pictures is very jerky and some what delayed. It's like the picture only updates every 2 seconds.

Vix 3.0 image is installed.

Any ideas ?

Thanks.

[judge]

That's a hardware limitation of the slower/older VU boxes as far as I remember.
Also ViX 3.x builds are no longer supported.

[rob588cliff]

Thanks. Are you suggesting that upgrading to the latest Vix image could resolve the problem ?

[judge]

No, I doubt it.
But staying on such an old build wont help.

[ronand]

Avoid HD channels when using PiP. The Duo just doesnt have the horsepower

[Rob van der Does]

This has nothing to do with power, but with the number of videodecoders. The DUO/UNO/Ultimo have only one HD-decoder, so HD-channels in PiP will only show the whole picture (roughly once a second).
If the HD-channel has an SD-equivalent, you can use the PiP-Servicerelation plugin. When setup properly it will show the SD-channel in PiP when PiPping an HD-channel.

[avi68]

Using an sd variant of the channel is still the same on my duo. It still freezes like the hd ones when using pip. I'm on Helios 16.

[Rob van der Does]

Then there's something wrong in your setup.
What is a 'normal' SD service in PiP like?

[jojo36]

not sure what pip is but sd picture is fine

[Trial]

Hi,
PiP ServiceRelation must be configured. You must tell the plugin which SD channel corresponds to a certain HD channel. Without this configuration nothing has changed.

ciao

[jojo36]

how is this done as not to clued up about this

[avi68]

Then there's something wrong in your setup.
What is a 'normal' SD service in PiP like?

What do you mean by 'normal'? A FTA channel?

Say if I'm watching sky sports 1 hd and I have sky comedy SD as the pip, it will still freeze and move every 2 seconds.

[avi68]

Hi,
PiP ServiceRelation must be configured. You must tell the plugin which SD channel corresponds to a certain HD channel. Without this configuration nothing has changed.

ciao
I'm not using a plugin, could that be the issue? I just hold down the arrow down key and choose my selected pip channel.

[Trial]

Hi,
the Duo has no hardware PiP. All is done in software. With a SD channel you get around 3-4 pictures per second and when you like HD in PiP window you get 1 picture every 2-3 seconds. Thats normal. With PiP ServiceRelation it might be possible to get als 3-4 fps for HD channel. This is the most you get with Duo.

ciao