[mythtv-users] Weird seeking problems

Mark J. Small msmall at eastlink.ca
Mon May 9 14:57:23 UTC 2005


On May 9, 2005 11:32 am, Preet Khalsa wrote:
> 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?
>
> Had the same problem.  The recorded markup table got corrupted.  Run
>
> mysqlcheck mythconverg
>
> and fix the errors.  You should be back in action quick.
>
> Preet
>
>
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Thanks,

I fixed the errors in the recorded markup table using mysqlcheck, and I also 
ran mythcommflag --rebuild.  But I still can't seek properly.  The recorded 
length is correct or at least consant now, but skipping only moves a couple 
of seconds.  Anything else I can try?

Mark


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