This is their latest ”N3” process. Wrap your mind around this—it features over 200 million transistors for each square millimeter on a chip! On a chip about the size of your fingernail, that’s over 20 billion transistors. Apple’s new M3 chip will be built using this technology.
Does the speed and power of the CPU have anything to do with how quickly the client can tune into a channel? I use an old Intel machine as a server and Apple TVs as clients, and it can sometimes take over 30 seconds to start a TVE stream.
It seems to take longer on channels that I haven't watched in a while, so maybe it's just reauthenticating. Because if I switch to a new channel and then back, the next time is usually around 5 seconds or less. But at its fastest it's nowhere near the speed of the old channel surfing cable days.
Not really. It sounds like its authenticating, or that you have a TVE source which is broken set as higher priority and it always has to go through that one and fail first before trying the source that works.
You can check the DVR log (Support > Logs) to see what exactly is going on.
Okay, thanks. Good to know.
I'll be looking to upgrade my setup later this year, so I was just curious if the load speeds ever got down to a second or two with a fast CPU. Guess not.
TVE loads within a second for me. It depends on the channel, but once you're authed it should last a couple weeks and load pretty fast.
I think @tgenius recently upgraded hardware and noticed TVE got faster.
About the same here.
1-2 seconds (if channel already authed)
On a 9 year old Synology DS1513+ w/quad core Intel Atom D2701 CPU @ 2.13GHz
Same on 3 year old Synology DS1019+ w/quad core Intel Celeron J3455 CPU @ 1.50GHz
That's a nice system.
I'm loving Win 10 LTSC, only very rare updates, and an OS that installs without Microsoft Edge browser.
Any thoughts on the new M2 Mac Mini? The base model can be had for $499 on their Education Store, but with very little storage and memory. That being the case, would you recommend upgrading the 256GB SSD even though I'd be using an external drive for recordings?
I've read a few things that suggest that the lifespan of an SSD is directly related to its size, and I wonder if there's any truth to that. If so, how much longer, in general, would a 512GB SSD last is the real question?
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It should work perfectly as-is, IF you want to spend that sort of money for it.
Is there a resource that says which TVE auth is the fastest, or ones to avoid? I use my DirecTV account and currently trialing Hulu Live. I have my priority set as follows:
HDHomeRun Quatro
Hulu Live
DirecTV
Virtual Channels
FuboTV (left over from a trial but seems to still auth some channels so I left it)
Even before I added Hulu Live it felt like authenticating has been taking forever on all channels. In running it in Docker on a Synology 920+ but have been considering going back to my M1 Mac Mini but after you said its not hardware, it made me wonder about TVE priority and if there were any tricks.
I use Beelink GK35 https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09FDGT449/ at half the price which brings it close to RPI 4 and unlike RPI 4 provides a quality H.264 hardware encoding.
All TVE sources are the same regardless of who your provider is. You are connecting directly to the source (discovery, HGTV, history, etc)
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