[mythtv] Seek (back and forth) broken in MythTV trunk r23186

[R. G. Newbury]

On 01/18/2010 02:56 AM, Michael T. Dean wrote:
> On 01/18/2010 02:42 AM, Michael T. Dean wrote:
>> On 01/17/2010 07:46 PM, agraham wrote:
>>
>>> I just upgraded my mythtv 0.22 to trunk r23186
>>>
>>> It appears that the seek forward and backward is completely broken
>>> when viewing TV recordings.
>>>
>>> Lets suppose while watching any existing record (or live TV) I wish to
>>> jump ahead 5 minutes, I would normally  press 5 then right arrow -
>>> this now always brings me to the end of the record.
>>>
>>> If I try to rewind 5 minutes, I press 5 left arrow and now this always
>>> brings me to the beginning of the recording.
>>>
>>>
>>> Not sure when this problem got introduced, or if the logic has changed
>>> but this was a really useful feature.
>>>
>>> Now in order to seek I must use right or left arrow and watch it seek
>>> on screen x3 x5 x10 x20... x180.
>>>
>> You had StickyKeys enabled--which allowed you to hit Left/Right once and
>> the player stuck in rewind/fast-forward mode.  There is no longer a
>> StickyKeys setting, so Left and Right are now mapped to the RWNDSTICKY
>> and FFWDSTICKY actions in TV Playback context (which are used for
>> absolute seeks when preceded by numbers).
>>
>
> I should say, "Left and Right are now /re/mapped to the RWNDSTICKY and
> FFWDSTICKY actions in TV Playback context," *on your system* because you
> had StickyKeys enabled.
>
>> If you want to use incremental seek, you'll need to unmap Left/Right
>> from RWNDSTICKY/FFWDSTICKY and map them to SEEKRWND/SEEKFFWD (i.e.
>> disable the "use Left/Right as sticky keys") or map some other keys to
>> SEEKRWND/SEEKFFWD and use those keys instead of Left/Right for
>> incremental seek.
>>
>
> So this isn't something that everyone needs to do--only those users who
> had StickyKeys enabled need to decide which functionality they want to
> use (or put things to the "don't use Left/Right as sticky keys " defaults.
>
> Mike (who's too tired and probably shouldn't have sent that first reply)
> _______________________________________________

No don't feel bad. Been there done that, too. And I don't understand 
exactly what I should do in any event.

Geoff

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