[mythtv] Re: Re: Re: 0.17 playback on PVR-350 tvout has bad framecount timing

[Derek Atkins]

Actually, don't commit this patch..  It doesn't work for pre-recorded
programs.  How weird.  I'm testing something else at the moment to
make sure.

-derek

Derek Atkins <warlord at MIT.EDU> writes:

> David Engel <gigem at comcast.net> writes:
>
>>> *sigh*.  So on average you lose the count of one frame ever 18 minutes...
>>
>> I know, but it's still a bug!
>
> True, but it's much lesser of an evil than the current code.  The
> current code is nearly unusable watching LiveTV.  But eh, I don't have
> commit access.
>
>>> Perhaps something like the attached patch?  I think this will do the
>>
>> Yes, like that, but I think you need to allow for a 2-byte pad.
>> bufptr is incremented before we access bufptr[1], so it's actually the
>> second byte after the end of buffer check.
>
> picky picky picky.  Here's another version with some updated comments.
>
> -derek
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