[mythtv-users] Weird seeking problems

Mark J. Small msmall at eastlink.ca
Mon May 9 14:15:33 UTC 2005


On May 9, 2005 11:03 am, Mark J. Small wrote:
> Hi Everybody,
>
> Something weird just starting happening to me on the weekend.
>
> On Saturday I noticed that my backend had rebooted itself while recording
> South Park at 1:00 in the morning.  Ever since then, I haven't been able to
> seek properly while watching recorded programs.  Sometimes, when I try to
> skip thirty seconds, it will immediately jump about 1 second.  At other
> time it will pause for about 5-10 seconds and then complete the 30 second
> skip.
>
> When it is trying to skip, the OSD in the top right corner will do an
> interesting thing.  The total recording length will slowly change.  Perhaps
> having an innaccurate total recording length messes with the skipping and
> jumping.
>
> Also, it takes several minutes to resume watching a program from a
> bookmark. All I get is a black screen for a long time, and suddenly the
> program resumes from the bookmark.
>
> I'm running mythtv 0.17 on Debian Sarge, linux 2.4.something on the
> backend.
>
> Any ideas?
>
> Mark
 
It's me again.  Also, I am finding that the recording will randomly jump ahead 
a few seconds sometimes while I am watching.  It makes for a rather confusing 
experience.

Mark


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