[mythtv-users] Leanfront playback of in-progress recordings resume using the 2 skip to resume; maybe modify to use play/pause to do the same

[Jay Harbeston]

> On Feb 11, 2024, at 9:59 AM, Peter Bennett <pb.mythtv at gmail.com> wrote:
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> On 2/11/24 09:37, Jay Harbeston wrote:
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>> I thought I had seen a reference to another video playing program that was used as a basis for leanfront in one of the leanfront threads recently.
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>> No worries.
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> Yes - I used the exoplayer demo program from google as a basis , changed that and added to it.
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> I tested your situation again and on my system, when it gets to the end of the initial section of the video, it pauses for about a second, then continues.
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> What recording card do you use?

I am using HDHR4-2US tuners. I have 2 of the dual tuners, both fully updated.

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> I think perhaps in your case there is excessive buffering before writing to the disk, so that leanfront cannot see the size of the file increasing.
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> Leanfront tests for 5 seconds to see if the file is increasing and if it does not increase for 5 seconds it assumes it is the end of the recording.
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> Perhaps the "HD ringbuffer size" is set very large in backend setup - General - Miscellaneous. Mine is set at 40000.
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My ring buffer is set for 9400 kB.   So quite a bit smaller than your setting.

> If  you can get a log by running this it would help
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> adb connect <ip address>
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> adb logcat lfe:D *:S |& tee android.log
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> Start that log before you begin playback. Run playback until you get to the point where it stops. Leave it stopped for about 30 seconds to make sure it does not start again, then stop the adb logcat and send me the output.

I’ll do a capture for that.

Thanks!