Three second pause when changing channel setting question

[Ichi]

Hi,
When selecting a channel e.g 111 there is a three second pause before the VIX software moves to the new channel. This 3 second timer can be bypassed by pressing the "OK" button straight after the third button. Is it possible for any option in menu/setting where the three second timer can be removed, so on the third input button when changing channel it straight away goes to the new channel?

 

[Larry-G]

the zap time can be affected by many things such as the location of your picons if you use them. for example if you have picons stored on a HDD rather than a USB stick it can put as many as 5 to 7 seconds onto the zap time.

 

[Ichi]

Hi phoenix,
The zap time is quick, as if I press Channel (+) or (-) button, the channel loads instantly.
Or if I enter channel 111 and OK with the following button combination (1), (1), (1), (OK) its very quick. The issue is if I press (1), (1), (1), there is then a 3 second timer before it changes to channel 111. Just wondering if there is an option/setting to remove that timer?

 

[Stanman]

No there's not. Try moving your picons to a USB stick and see if it makes a difference.

 

[judge]

I use Silverfox's bouquets & always add my favourites to a new bouquet above all the others.
That way I can put RTE1 on no.1, RTE2 on no.2 and so on...
The 3 second wait is a pain if I just want to press 1 and get to RTE 1, never tried numbers in the 100's as I don't watch that many channels without browsing EPG first.
A timeout setting on this zapping option would be a nice feature.

 

[Ichi]

Hi Stanman, the speed of zapping is superb. The issue is more in what Judge was saying. I am using Silverfox's bouquet, trying to mimic a Sky box in terms of channel numbers, so only inputting channels from 101 to 999. A timeout would a good feature, but don't think there is that much of a demand as searched forum and could not find similar posts. Excellent software though!!!

 

[andyblac]

this is because it supports 1'000 's of channels so doing this would remove support for 4 digit channel numbers. for us with motor/multi-lnb setups.