[mythtv-users] 0.27.3 live tv aspect issues

[Mike Perkins]

On 19/07/14 12:36, Al Bates wrote:
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>> i have a feeling it only happens when the viewing duration of the first channel is short, i.e. when you jump to another channel immediately after starting live tv. i will try to reliably reproduce it.
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> just had it happen again after a long period of watching several different channels - almost half an hour of buffered live tv. different transports. precise decription of behaviour is:
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> 1. live tv is launched and watched for some time
> 2. channel is switched using up and down arrows, bringing up OSD with channel and programme details. new channel is selected.
> 3. after tuning delay, new live tv is displayed under OSD
> 4. as OSD is removed, live tv that has previously been viewed begins to playback from the first frame viewed at stage 1
> 5. skipping through the old tv, all historic video is still there, including previous channel changes. the new channel live tv is at the end of the stream and can then be watched as normal, but subsequent channel switches may cause step 4 to occur again
> 6. only way to ensure proper behaviour is to leave live tv and being live tv again
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> No guaranteed way of reproducing this yet but i will continue to try
>
Does this sem to happen just before, at, or just after a program boundary? I 
recall a new LiveTV file is started when the program changes (on a channel).

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Mike Perkins