[mythtv] [BUG] DVB: problems figuring out the length of a recording in TS mode

[William Uther]

On Sun, 3 Apr 2005, Pekka Jääskeläinen <pekka.jaaskelainen at gmail.com> 
wrote:

> I entered a bug report for this, there's also a link to a sample video 
> file:
>
> http://www.mythtv.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=267

Then:

> This seems to be the same bug as this:
>
> http://www.mythtv.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=221
>
> Gotta try the patch out.

Then:

> The patch attached to the bug did not work, but made the TS playback 
> even worse.  When I tried to open a TS recording, mythfrontend hung 
> (at least for 30 secs, after which I killed it).

There is not really a whole lot of information in your report for me to 
say if this is the same problem we see here in Aus (bug #221) or not.  
I'm surprised the patch caused playback problems however - it doesn't 
really change anything in playback.

The patch changes how the back end counts frames, and hence stores jump 
points, while recording.  That means that the patch will not fix 
programs recorded before you applied the patch.  It also means that the 
only thing it should affect in playback is skipping or time display.  
If you just start a recording from the beginning, then the patch has no 
effect.  Hence the frontend freeze you describe sounds unrelated.

Are you sure the patch applied cleanly?  Can you give more detail?

Be well,

Will           :-}

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