[mythtv-users] Live tv issues with 0.24 fixes

Mark Goldberg marklgoldberg at gmail.com
Mon Nov 29 15:07:35 UTC 2010


On Sat, Nov 27, 2010, Oliver Greg wrote:
>On Fri, Nov 26, 2010 at 5:29 PM, Mark Goldberg wrote:
>> There are several issues with live tv in 0.24-fixes. Many of the remote commands
>> (up , down for channel change, menu and sometimes guide) seem to be
>> ignored.
>
>I watch livetv quite a bit and I have not experienced this.
>

I updated to 0.24-fixes svn 27366 and this issue is still present. I
ran irw and all the
remote commands are detected, but only some are responded to by myth.

>> Numbers and forward / back are detected but seeking sometimes
>> does not work and seeking backwards to the start of live tv often results in
>> segfaults or dropping out of live tv with error messages.
>
>I do get dropped out of livetv quite a bit if I seek back and forth -
>but it is mostly with hdpvr channels. When tuned to an hdhr channel,
>it is more stable (or so it seems - well in general, h264 material is
>less reliably played back - livetv or recordings). I must admit I do
>not seek much in livetv though - I use it mainly for "background
>noise" while I work.

Seeking now seems to work, but seeking back to the start of live tv
still results in segfaults.

Mark


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