[mythtv-users] Odd issue when skipping forward in recordings

Donavan Stanley geckofiend at gmail.com
Fri Sep 2 03:22:38 UTC 2005


On 9/1/05, Brian Stults <bstults at crim.ufl.edu> wrote:
> 
> Nick wrote:
> > On 9/2/05, Brian Wallen <brian_wallen at hotmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >>I'm using a remote frontend, and samba to watch the recordings from the
> >>backend. I'm doing this because its the only way I know to share files 
> over
> >>a network, although I know it can be done with NFS. When I skip forward 
> in
> >>a recording, the length of the recording fluctuates. So if a recording 
> is
> >>say, 30 minutes, when I hit the skip button it will fluctuate wildly 
> between
> >>about 29:30 and 30:30. Would this happen if I used NFS?
> >
> >
> > I doubt it would, they're the same files in the end. I'd make sure
> > your database tables are all OK firstly, as this is known to cause
> > oddities in reported recording length and issues when navigating
> > through a file. Also, what type of recordings are these? DVB, HDTV or
> > capture card source? I normally have no problems with DVB files, but
> > ivtv files sometime have really erratic recording lengths displayed.
> >
> 
> Be sure that your remote frontend is able to access the mysql database
> on the backend. Check the mythtv documentation for mention of the
> "skip-innodb" option in my.cnf.
> 
> 
If it couldn't then he'd have bugger problems.
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