[mythtv-users] more on h.264 playback issues

[Håkon Alstadheim]

(top-posting on purpose)
Hi Greg, your problems sound familiar. Could you please provide some 
more details, like:

- Type of system (os&distro)
- Version of mythtv (this is the most important)
- Source/description of h264 signals. I'm pretty sure the video must be 
interlaced to exhibit the issues you describe, but something describing 
the signal, like the console output from '/usr/bin/mythfrontend -v 
important,general,playback' and your geographical location to let other 
people compare results would be good.

(when you reply, I suggest you insert a short reply in-between my 
questions, and any lengty log-output would fit best at the very bottom)

Greg Woods wrote:
> I have confirmed that these issues do not come up with MPEG recordings
> made from a PVR-500 or an HDHomerun; this only happens with h.264
> recordings made from an HD-PVR.
>
> What happens is, when fast forwarding, and I hit the OK button to resume
> playback, the recording "jumps back" to a previous point, but the OSD
> still shows the time as where it should be, not where it actually is
> after the jump back. So now the OSD time is out of sync with the
> playback. Last night I actually had a point where it thought it was at
> the end of the recording but had actually jumped back several minutes.
> Of course I can't fast forward any more after that because it thinks
> it's already at the end. 
>
> Jump backs always happen when fast forwarding, never when playing.
>
> I can get the clock in sync again by exiting out of the recording and
> saving the position. Then when I resume playback, I will be at the point
> that the OSD clock showed I was at (even though that's not where the
> playback was really at).
>
> Let me know if there is any information I could provide to help
> troubleshoot this. It is really annoying when watching Stanley Cup
> playoff games, as when I resume playback and I am further forward then
> when I was before stopping, I can't help but see the score, and if
> somebody has scored in the meantime then I know what's going to happen
> before I see it, and it ruins a lot of the drama. All three goals in
> last night's Ducks/Wings game were spoiled this way.
>
> --Greg
>
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