[mythtv-users] Problem editing recordings

John Pilkington J.Pilk at tesco.net
Sat Apr 17 21:31:20 UTC 2010


On 17/04/10 19:31, Jens Wilmer wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I have some playback problems on my mythtv boxes. I'm using "Mythbuntu",
> Mythtv on minimal a ubuntu with xfce, Backend is a core 2 duo with an
> old nvidia graphics card and 4 WinTV Nova HD S2 used for recording and
> playback. Separate Frontend is an AMD based barebone.
> No problem with continuous playback on both frontends, but while editing
> on the separate Frontend (AMD Barebone) skipping one frame forward from
> frame x to frame y and one frame back shows frame x as position and
> frame y as picture, so i don't really know what picture really belongs
> to the frame.
> On the Frontend of the Backend everything has been O.K. until recently,
> when a crashing Frontend changed/deleted/corrupted parts of the
> configuration (At the next start the theme changed to a them i did not
> use before). Since then editing recordings became nearly impossible
> because of the skipping behaviour. In editing mode Skipping a step
> greater than 5 seconds results displaying the destination frame for a
> split second before jumping back to the frame where the skip started. So
> skipping through the whole file results in the display not moving except
> the short flickering of frames. Skipping 5 Seconds or less results in
> "random" frames being displayed, sometimes the frame displayed changes,
> sometimes it doesn't. Skipping single frames seems drag the position
> behind, the displayed framenumber is changed in accordance to the
> movement. The Picture is one movement behind. if a skip a frame forward,
> the picture moves one frame forward. but changing the direction results
> in the picture changing the direction one step behind. "frame indicated"
> -> "frame shown":
> 1-> 1; Startposition
> 2-> 2; one frame forward, next frame shown
> 3-> 3; one frame forward, next frame shown
> 2 -> 4; one frame backward, next frame shown
> 1 -> 3; one frame backward, previous frame shown
> 0 -> 2; one frame backward, previous frame shown
> 1 -> 1; one frame forward, previous frame shown
> 2 -> 2; one frame forward, next frame shown...
>
> What could be done to get it usable again?
>
Is this http://svn.mythtv.org/trac/ticket/7523?

where the initial report said "This only happens using xv-blit mode. 
Switching to opengl resolves the issue "

There's a related thread here:

http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/users/405257#405257



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