[mythtv-users] Bookmark brokenness

[Jim Stichnoth]

On Wed, Feb 27, 2013 at 12:54 PM, Karl Newman <siliconfiend at gmail.com> wrote:
> I've been using 0.25 since shortly after it was released about 9 months ago.
> Unfortunately, a number of things broke or stopped working correctly
> compared to 0.24. Commercial flagging became spotty at best, and Live TV is
> a complete mess if you're trying to record what you're watching (or watch
> what you're recording), and MythMusic's interface became baffling and
> difficult such that we hardly use it anymore. I think those issues have
> already been thrashed on this mailing list, but there's another one that I
> haven't seen mentioned. We use the "save bookmark and exit" feature and it's
> counterpart "clear bookmark on playback" or whatever it's called. Frequently
> (but not always?) if we exit playback from a paused state, the bookmark will
> not be saved. Our workaround has been to hit play briefly before escape.
> What might be another symptom is that when I press pause, the progress bar
> displays with the current position briefly, then it goes to 0:00:00. This is
> only for recordings; LiveTV shows the correct position on the progress bar.
> Another, similar problem is if I accidentally hit skip forward while paused,
> it starts playing in fast forward (it's possible/likely the same key is
> mapped to both functions). Then I come to my senses and hit Play again to
> resume normal speed but that typically makes it jump back to the beginning
> and start playing from there again. I can't remember exactly but I think
> it's more likely to happen if I've hit the skip forward button several times
> in a row (like I would if I was skipping commercials). I don't have any logs
> to show yet but I was wondering if anyone else had seen that or could
> reproduce the problem. I've had it since the first version of 0.25 and it's
> still there in 0.25.3 from around the first of the year.
>
> I'm using the MythCenter-wide theme if that matters.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Karl
>
> P.S., I'm not upgrading to 0.26+ because I have an ivtv device and my family
> uses LiveTV and I haven't heard that the problem has been resolved. I seem
> to recall there were other unresolved (ffmpeg-related?) breakages, too.

The progress bar showing 0 while paused sounds like
http://code.mythtv.org/trac/ticket/10962 .  It would be nice to figure
out how to reproduce it.  "Losing" the bookmark is exactly what would
happen if the system believes the playback position is at frame 0 when
you exit.

The problem in 0.26 with Live TV startup with analog PVR-xxx tuners
was fixed in http://code.mythtv.org/cgit/mythtv/commit/?id=a1b9b1f94a774710443637de034c661618e5baa3
.  As far as I know, live TV in 0.26 now behaves as well (or badly) as
0.25.

Jim