[mythtv-users] Internal video player - "fast forward" & video length

[Harald Deischinger]

Roald wrote:

>On Mon, 24 Jan 2005 18:10:31 +0100, Harald Deischinger 
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>>1. the length of the video is not determined correctly, it even jitters
>>while the movie is playing.
>>2. "fast forward" is extremely slow when playing the video from a slow
>>media (WLAN) - it seems that the player first thas to read the whole
>>file before it can skip properly.
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>I had this, and very high cpu usage. Something had happened to my
>mysql-database, so mythbackend were trying to write to the database
>all the time, and used up all resources on that. After fixing the
>database everything was ok again. Check your mythbackend-log if
>anything is reported there..
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No - that is not the case.
The CPU load is low - there are no entries in the backend log. The only 
entry in the logs was from the frontend that it could not find the meta 
information (but after running the video manager once, also that was gone).

I have now looked a little bit closer to what happens when I play the 
file from the local hard disk.
- when first skipping forward ti also takes also quite some time and 
during the time the hard disk led is on.
- I can skip back to the start and forward again without the delay. Also 
the hard disk keeps quite then.

Some more information that might be useful:
- I have recorded the MPEGs with my PVR-350 (from VCR)
- I am using ivtv-0.2.0-rc3d. Kernel 2.6.10.
- MythTV from CVS (2 days old) but I notied the same problem also with 0.16.

harald