[mythtv-users] PiP gets confused

Jerome Yuzyk jerome at supernet.ab.ca
Tue Apr 17 11:16:04 UTC 2007


On Tuesday 17 April 2007 01:35, Chris Elston wrote:
> On Mon, 2007-04-16 at 19:59 -0600, Jerome Yuzyk wrote:
> > On Monday 16 April 2007 19:30, Brian Wood wrote:
> > > On Apr 16, 2007, at 7:23 PM, Jerome Yuzyk wrote:
> > > > I was watching 2 hockey games tonight, exercising PiP and noticed
> > > > that it gets
> > > > confused the longer it runs or the more I swap channels.
> > > >
> > > > I have a PVR-550 on 0.20 on FC5.
> > > >
> > > > After a few switches, switching took longer and longer, with 100%
> > > > CPU use
> > > > in-between. I noticed in my MythWeb Recorded Programs (Live TV)
> > > > that there
> > > > were multiple recordings in progress. Eventually, switching back to
> > > > a channel
> > > > started handing me back to an earlier place in time: an earlier
> > > > period of the
> > > > game I was switching to. This is reproducible - it just happened
> > > > again after
> > > > only a couple switches when I went back into LiveTV.
>
> I think you're experiencing a bug I fixed a couple of weeks ago
> http://svn.mythtv.org/trac/ticket/3175 - certainly the symptoms you're
> describing sound like it to me.  Fancy checking out SVN head to see if
> this issue is resolved for you? If not, then it's scheduled for
> inclusion in 0.21.

Thanks - I will wait for 0.21 (when is it due for release? before playoffs are 
over?) since I have a packaged-binaries setup that I really don't want to 
mess with.

This looks like another case where it would be best to disable recording 
completely and go all-live.


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