[mythtv-users] Internal video player - "fast forward" & video length

[Kevin Kuphal]

Harald Deischinger wrote:

> Roald wrote:
>
>> On Mon, 24 Jan 2005 18:10:31 +0100, Harald Deischinger  
>>
>>> 1. the length of the video is not determined correctly, it even jitters
>>> while the movie is playing.
>>> 2. "fast forward" is extremely slow when playing the video from a slow
>>> media (WLAN) - it seems that the player first thas to read the whole
>>> file before it can skip properly.
>>>   
>>
>>
>> I had this, and very high cpu usage. Something had happened to my
>> mysql-database, so mythbackend were trying to write to the database
>> all the time, and used up all resources on that. After fixing the
>> database everything was ok again. Check your mythbackend-log if
>> anything is reported there..
>>  
>>
> No - that is not the case.
> The CPU load is low - there are no entries in the backend log. The 
> only entry in the logs was from the frontend that it could not find 
> the meta information (but after running the video manager once, also 
> that was gone).
>
> I have now looked a little bit closer to what happens when I play the 
> file from the local hard disk.
> - when first skipping forward ti also takes also quite some time and 
> during the time the hard disk led is on.
> - I can skip back to the start and forward again without the delay. 
> Also the hard disk keeps quite then.
>
> Some more information that might be useful:
> - I have recorded the MPEGs with my PVR-350 (from VCR)
> - I am using ivtv-0.2.0-rc3d. Kernel 2.6.10.
> - MythTV from CVS (2 days old) but I notied the same problem also with 
> 0.16.
>
Are you playing these with MythVideo?

If so, try running mythcommflag --rebuild against the file to build the 
seektable.

Kevin