[mythtv-users] Watching active recordings stops on remote frontends

Josh White jaw1959 at gmail.com
Tue Feb 5 20:38:24 UTC 2008


My backend is running on Ubuntu 7.10, and I have a frontend running on
Ubuntu 7.10, a frontend on Mythbuntu, and two frontends running on Mac OS X
10.4.  I've never experienced the issue you describe with any of them.

On Feb 5, 2008 3:22 PM, lists_mythtv_users <
lists_mythtv_users at bigpizza.co.uk> wrote:

> Josh White wrote:
> > I'm not experiencing the problem, and I'm also running the same
> > version on the same OS.  You MUST be doing it wrong :-)
> >
> Well, there's only so many ways you can start watching a recording
> that's currently in progress. :-)
>
> I've got a separate frontend and backend.  Backend runs on an OpenSUSE
> 10.3 box and uses a 3ware RAID card for storage.  It uses XFS with
> allocsize set to 512M on mount to prevent fragmentation.  The frontend
> uses Ubuntu 7.10.  The recordings directory is shared out from the
> backend box over the LAN using NFS.  How does your setup differ?
>
> > On Feb 5, 2008 3:11 PM, lists_mythtv_users
> > <lists_mythtv_users at bigpizza.co.uk
> > <mailto:lists_mythtv_users at bigpizza.co.uk>> wrote:
> >
> >     lists_mythtv_users wrote:
> >     > Jarett Creason wrote:
> >     >
> >     >> Hey all,
> >     >>
> >     >> I'm having a problem with my Myth setup (0.20.2), I searched the
> >     >> archives but couldn't find this...  Yesterday, I set the Super
> >     Bowl to
> >     >> record from my master backend/frontend machine, and it uses the
> >     >> HDHomeRun tuner.  On that machine, I was able to go to the
> >     recordings
> >     >> screen, select the recoding and tell it to play, then jump up
> >     to "real
> >     >> time" and watch it as it happens.  I have two other remote
> >     frontends I
> >     >> also wanted to watch the game from.  I did the same thing, went
> the
> >     >> recordings menu, played the recording, then jumped to a few
> seconds
> >     >> behind real time, but then the playback would exit back to the
> >     >> recordings screen, like the recording was over.  I tried again,
> but
> >     >> this time I'd jump to a minute behind, but then after a minute
> >     or so,
> >     >> it would exit again, like the recording was done.  What I
> >     figured out
> >     >> was that when I press play on the recording, where ever the
> >     stream is
> >     >> currently at, that's where it exits once it reaches that point,
> >     like
> >     >> it doesn't update how long the recording is while it plays.
> >     >>
> >     >> For example (since I may not be too clear), I press play on the
> >     Super
> >     >> Bowl, and when I first get the picture, I press the info
> >     button, and
> >     >> it says that I'm 1 second into the recording, and the recording's
> >     >> current length is 4 minutes and 30 seconds.  The recording is
> >     growing
> >     >> though, since it's in progress.  If I just let it play, 4
> >     minutes and
> >     >> 30 seconds later, the recording is 9 minutes long, but the
> playback
> >     >> exits right there.
> >     >>
> >     >> I was able to just "Watch TV" on one of the two remote
> >     frontends using
> >     >> the 2nd tuner on the HDHomeRun, which worked fine, so I had it
> >     playing
> >     >> in two places...  Thanks for any help, and if I'm overlooking
> some
> >     >> thread or already known fix for this, please just point me in the
> >     >> right direction.
> >     >>
> >     >>
> >     > For info, I have been experiencing exactly the same problem.
> >      The time
> >     > offset from the beginning of a recording at which I start
> >     viewing it is
> >     > the time at which the recording will finish being played by the
> >     frontend.
> >     >
> >     >
> >     From the lack of responses on the list can I assume that no-one
> >     else is
> >     experiencing the same problem?  I'm running 0.20.2 on Ubuntu 7.10.
> >     Positive confirmation from some of you kind people that you're not
> >     experiencing the problem would be appreciated.  It would show me
> that
> >     the problem lies outside of my myth install and could be due to my
> >     combination of hardware for instance.
> >
> >     Regards,
> >
> >     Steve.
> >
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