[mythtv-users] Weird seeking problems
Nate Thompson
nightstrm at gmail.com
Mon May 9 15:05:12 UTC 2005
On 5/9/05, Mark J. Small <msmall at eastlink.ca> wrote:
> 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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Do you have libmpeg2 decoding enabled? I had problems with seeking
working properly with this enabled.
Nate
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