[mythtv-users] Can MythTV play a scheduled recording while it is recording?

Sean shomann2 at insightbb.com
Tue Dec 2 01:00:49 EST 2003


Steven Sartorius wrote:

>on 12/1/03 12:51, Ken Bass at kbass at kenbass.com wrote:
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>>On Mon, 1 Dec 2003, Eric Thirolle wrote:
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>>>My question is: Is it possible to watch a scheduled recording BEFORE it has
>>>finished recording. E.g., if I set up a scheduled recording of Angel at 9pm,
>>>and then want to start watching it a 9:15, can I do this?
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>>You can do this. However be warned that you should not hit the
>>'commercial skip' button while doing this. On my system it either locks up
>>or it takes 30-60 seconds before it recovers (not having skipped
>>anything), but then the system goes into slow motion (1/2 speed) with no
>>audio. 
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>I haven't seen this behavior on my system -- an ASUS A7N266-VM Mobo with an
>Athlon XP+ 2200 and a Leadtek Winfast capture card.  While encoding (and
>decoding) an MPEG-4 stream  I am able to skip commercials with no problems.
>I have noticed, though, that skipping through a block of commercials in an
>MPEG-4 stream can take 2-3 seconds; skipping through an RTJPEG stream is
>virtually instantaneous.
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>Steve
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This happens on my system and may be because I am using MPEG-2 encoding. 
I haven't noticed it harming the encoded file later, only the decoding 
process. A minor annoyance in my book because most of the time I watch 
after the show is finished.

-Sean



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