[mythtv] Re: [mythtv-commits] mythtv commit: r7076 by danielk

[Isaac Richards]

On Thursday 18 August 2005 11:46 pm, Daniel Kristjansson wrote:
> Ok, then this flag is right.
>
> Any idea why avlib seeking doesn't work with LiveTV? I get a bunch of
> messages about safe_read failing. Perhaps it is because the ring buffer
> really is a ring buffer and not a linear file in LiveTV? Or, perhaps we
> need to reset the avlib timecode when using the DummyDTVRecorder?

The libavformat seeking code's basically disabled in live-tv mode.  It's 
implemented poorly, and if the timestamps ever wrap (ie., if you change the 
channel), it starts eating tons of cpu.

Isaac