[mythtv] position/cutlist not updating (more info)

[Chris Palmer]

I decided to do a little debugging on my own and so I added a 
few debugging output lines to libs/libmythtv/NuppelVideoPlayer.cpp
which show which criteria in NuppelVideoPlayer::SetBookmark
was causing the bookmark to not get set.

The very first if-statement was the one that was triggered:
    if (!haspositionmap) {
        cerr << "DEBUG: Unable to SetBookmark:  !haspositionmap\n" << endl;
        return;
    }

I have no idea how to track it from here, but hopefully this 
gives you guys some good clues, based on my description below 
and the condition being triggered.

-Chris


Chris Palmer wrote
> Hi...
> 
> I have one program in my playlist that I cannot get to
> "save position" or enter "edit mode" during playback.
> I looked thru the database for some reason for this and
> found that the cutlist field was NULL for that recording.
> Changing it to an empty string like the other shows that
> were not edited did not help, tho, so this is probably
> unrelated (I just reasoned that the other shows probably 
> had a NULL cutlist, too, until I entered edit mode on 
> them, even tho I didn't make any edits).
> 
> After scratching my head a bit, I came up with the one 
> difference in that show over the others.  I had marked the 
> show for recording about a minute after the actual show 
> had started.  All the rest were pre-scheduled recordings.
> 
> My guess is that the length of the recording doesn't match
> the expected length (not enough total frames), so mythtv is
> being paranoid and not doing any database updates based on 
> positioning.
> 
> >From checking the database logs, mythtv doesn't even attempt 
> to update the database for this one show (I saw it do the 
> update for other shows), so there's no error when trying 
> to update it.
> 
> Any thoughts?
> 
> -Chris