[mythtv] [mythtv-commits] [MythTV/mythtv] cbcffc: Jump back in live TV

[David Engel]

On Thu, Apr 28, 2022 at 05:58:46PM -0500, David Engel wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 27, 2022 at 02:43:49PM -0700, kmdewaal via mythtv-commits wrote:
> >   Branch: refs/heads/master
> >   Home:   https://github.com/MythTV/mythtv
> >   Commit: cbcffc474df6f79779ac5af5f0a9a91e34cfad39
> >       https://github.com/MythTV/mythtv/commit/cbcffc474df6f79779ac5af5f0a9a91e34cfad39
> >   Author: Klaas de Waal <klaas at kldo.nl>
> >   Date:   2022-04-27 (Wed, 27 Apr 2022)
> > 
> >   Changed paths:
> >     M mythtv/libs/libmythtv/mythplayer.cpp
> > 
> >   Log Message:
> >   -----------
> >   Jump back in live TV
> > 
> > When jumping back in live TV and the jump time interval is larger than the
> > current play position then a jump is done to the end of the recording instead
> > of to the start of the recording.
> > Fixed by restoring a cast that was accidentally removed in
> > commit 7949b0d20b5dc1b63c88ef511ccbef18c71ec8bf.
> 
> Klaas,
> 
> Thanks for finding and fixing this issue.  My mom uses live TV a lot
> and this bug occasionally crops up.  However, there is at least one
> other, similar bug still there.  I don't know if it's related to your
> fix or is pre-existing.

It's pre-existing.

David

> If playback is at the end of an earlier program in the live TV chain,
> skipping forward jumps to the same relative time in the next program
> instead of to the beginning of the next program.  For example, let's
> say the user watches program A for 10 minutes and then switches to
> program B and watches for 20 minutes.  If the user then goes back to
> near the end of program A and skips forward, playback of program B
> picks up at the 10 minute mark instead of at the beginning.  If
> program B is shorter than program A, playback picks up at the end of
> program B.
> 
> If you can't/won't look into this, that's fine.  It's not necessarily
> high on my TODO list either.  If you do look into it, however, and
> you're really, really motivated, there is another, long-standing
> mis-feature that is probably also related to these.  That is that
> fast-forward/rewind stops when it hits a program boundary.  It would
> be nice if ff/rew continues across those boundaries.
> 
> David
> -- 
> David Engel
> david at istwok.net

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David Engel
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