[mythtv-users] Changing default rewind amount

Nick knowledgejunkie at gmail.com
Tue Dec 13 15:25:06 EST 2005


On 13/12/05, mythtv at jehster.net <mythtv at jehster.net> wrote:
> jgmtfia Mr wrote:
> > I have a weird problem.  Before my last update, my rewind setting was 15
> seconds.  After the update it defaulted to 5 seconds.  I could not find
> where to change the value back to 15 seconds.  I looked in the
> "settings" table in the database and found "RewindAmount" was set to 5.
> I changed it to 15 seconds and restarted the front end.  However the
> setting is not being honored.
> >
> > I would appreciate any pointers.
>
> I'm assuming this happens when you use your IR remote. If so, you want to
> look in your lirc config file. I use xine as a video player, instead of
> the default mplayer. My rewind button looks like this:
>
> begin
>   remote = hauppauge_pvr
>   prog = xine
>   button = Rewind
>   repeat = 0
>   config = SeekRelative-15
> end
>
> The "config = " is what you're looking for. Again, since I don't use
> mplayer, I'm not sure of the config, but from what I just Googled, it
> likely looks like this: "config = seek -5". You'll want to change that 5
> to a 15.

I think the OP was talking about rewind within MythTV. Settings for
xine/mplayer are not stored in the mythconverg database, but in their
own config files or in ~/.lircrc.

Nick


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