[mythtv-users] RE: Forward fails in recorded shows

[Joseph A. Caputo]

On Monday 04 July 2005 16:48, John Stubbs wrote:
> >
> >Latest myth of corse, running FC3, ABIT NF7-S....
> >
> >I  have noticed that in a large number of recordings MythTv fails to 
> >forward correctly.
> >What happens is that you:
> >1) press forward and find yourself somewhere far forward (>5 min) and 
> >backwards will not pass this position now
> >2) you press forward. Picture freezes for a while and then the show 
> >is  
> >aborted. You can 3X your way across, but not forward.
> >
> >Anybody else noticed that?
> >
> >Karsten
> 
> Yes, I have this same exact problem, on the same setup (FC3, 
> myth-0.18-108  
> at), though it's not consistent- doesn't always happen to every show.  
> Also,  
> I get similar behavior for some shows when the length of the show in 
> the OSD  
> is obviously incorrect (e.g. 5 minutes for a 1 hour show).
> 
> Unfortunately, I haven't found any causes or fixes- my database check 
> came  
> back not corrupted and I haven't investigated further... though I 
> understand  
> from reading a bit on this list that the 'recordedmarkup table' might 
> have  
> something to do with it (maybe!).

Same problem here; there are several threads both here and on the -dev 
list that are dancing around the issue, but no one seems to have nailed 
it down quite yet.  I try to track CVS/SVN, and I first noticed this 
problem when I upgraded to then-current CVS in early June, I think.  
Before that I was running a build from the end of May.  Anyway, I 
haven't had time to look into it in detail, but it's really annoying, I 
agree.  Also I had to turn off libmpeg2 decoding as it's causing my 
MPEG2 -> MPEG4 auto-transcodes to come out all stuttery.  I've been 
rather suspect of an ffmpeg resync that was done in early June... 
another was done just the other day, so if I get a chance I'll upgrade 
this week and see if things are better.  I'm currently running SVN from 
6/23.

-JAC