[mythtv-users] Decoder problems during playback

[J. Donavan Stanley]

Stephen Atkins wrote:

>I just happened accross this problem while showing my wife how to use the
>system.  I recorded one of her soaps and I was fast forwarding (only at 2x) and
>when I pressed the play key which should then pause the playback it stopped
>responding.  In the frontend log it was displaying "Waited to long for decoder
>to pause."  I'm running the release .15 version.  I've also got it running on a
>2500+ Athlon XP with 512 Megs and 30 gigs HD (about 24 gig free).  I'm almost
>sure its not a hard ware issue.  I was not recording anything (the program was
>recorded earlier in the day) and nothing but myth/mysql is running on that box.
>Just wondering if anyone knows why this might be happening and if it has been
>fixed.  I looked through gossamer but couldn't find anything recent on this
>issue.
>  
>

This is a known issue.  It's been on my todo list to track down for a 
while but I've not really looked into it.  A really simple work around 
is to bind the play button on your remote to the PLAY key within Myth.  
Going from FFWD / REW to Play doesn't have this issue.  By default PLAY 
doesn't have a keybinding so you'll need to set one up with MythWeb or 
something.