[mythtv-users] Entering Edit Mode in .20

[Michael T. Dean]

On 10/11/06 15:45, CHRIS KOTTING wrote:

>I've hit an odd problem in MythTV 0.20.  
>Background:
>Combined Frontend/Backend running under Fedora Core 5, set up per J. 
>Wilson's instructions.  Updated (via yum -y update) yesterday in an attempt 
>to get MythArchive working reliably, and it now seems to be.
>
>Late yesterday, I was watching a recording (that had been comflagged) and 
>wanted to generate a cutlist in preparation for archiving.  However, no 
>matter what I did, I couldn't get into Edit mode.  Hitting "E" gave me an 
>OSD, but not the Editing OSD.  
>
>I was able to get into Edit mode by hitting "E" on some recordings, but it 
>wasn't consistent, even within the same recording.  It's almost as though 
>the Playback mode isn't catching the keyboard input correctly.
>
>Has anyone else encountered this?  Any thoughts on where I should start 
>hunting?
>

Sounds like a broken seektable.  See 
http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/users/230432#230432 and 
make sure you set optimize_mythdb.pl to run in a daily cron job, too.

Mike