[mythtv-users] Long delays with remote occasionally

[lj]

On Mon, 2009-03-30 at 09:46 -0700, Josh Mastronarde wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 7:41 AM, Larry on the Dell Laptop
> <larry at foxgulch.com> wrote:
> <snip>
> > Here's the test with  the preview shut down (no tiny tv screen in the
> > frontend window with a sample of the selected recording being shown)  I
> > picked the first recording from the top of the menu of recordings.  It
> > happened to be a recording made off the mpeg encoder fed by s-video from my
> > satellite box)
> >
> > This was created with  a call to
> > lj at mythtv:~$ mythfrontend -v important,libav > log3
> >
> > followed by
> >
> > lj at mythtv:~$ grep "Input #" log3 >josh3.txt
> >
> > Here's the contents of josh3.txt consisting of only one line:
> >
> > 2009-03-30 09:05:55.246 Input #0, mpeg, from
> > '/var/lib/mythtv/recordings/2120_20090330050000.mpg':
> >
> > Which is the expected result given my version has your patch (see below),
> > correct?
> 
> First -- no, you don't have my patch; I was just confirming that your
> distro has the library file with the same name (not sure how much each
> repo owner customizes things like that).  My patch just results in a
> new copy of that file.
> 
> Second, the fact that you see only one "Input #0, mpeg" line is
> exactly what I was expecting in this case -- when you play just "mpeg"
> files, they only get probed once (and I suspect you wouldn't have any
> remote issues).  However, as soon as you play an "mpegts" file (even
> just in preview), not only does the "mpegts" file get probed over and
> over, but "mpeg" files get probed over and over also.  That just
> shouldn't be happening, and is what I think causes the random remote
> delays.
> 
> Incidentally, anyone having issues with mp4 H.264 transcoded
> recordings is probably from the same issue -- the first time I played
> one, it would fail, then it would play, then after that regular "mpeg"
> recordings wouldn't play.
> 
> Would you like me to send you the replacement lib file (700KB) file to try?
> 
> Josh

I was forced to regress back to 18722 this morning (which I did with
partimage) so if think your file will work with this version,  yes,
please send it along. I can put your file in anyway and then if myth
balks, then just restore the old file.  I was never able to get the
fixes version (20xxxx something) to change volume, which was a show
stopper.  So I'm back with what I had before but using playback profile
"High Quality".  So far no delayed IR remote keypresses  and  the
volume / mute controls work normally from the remote.  After three days
of searching and configuring, I think "It's working, don't fix it" is
the rule of the day.

By the way, the info I sent this AM was prior to my restoring version
18722.  (referenced in the josh3.txt grep reference above)  That is to
say the tests were done with the fixes version from the mythbuntu fixes
repository I grabbed yesterday,  Sunday 29 March.  Right now, I can't
recall which 20xxx version number I had installed.

Larry