[mythtv-users] Weird seeking problems

Mark J. Small msmall at eastlink.ca
Mon May 9 15:32:47 UTC 2005


On May 9, 2005 12:05 pm, Nate Thompson wrote:
> On 5/9/05, Mark J. Small <msmall at eastlink.ca> wrote:
> > On May 9, 2005 11:32 am, Preet Khalsa wrote:
> > > Mark J. Small wrote:
> > > >Hi Everybody,
> > > >
> > > >Something weird just starting happening to me on the weekend.
> > > >
> > > >On Saturday I noticed that my backend had rebooted itself while
> > > > recording South Park at 1:00 in the morning.  Ever since then, I
> > > > haven't been able to seek properly while watching recorded programs. 
> > > > Sometimes, when I try to skip thirty seconds, it will immediately
> > > > jump about 1 second.  At other time it will pause for about 5-10
> > > > seconds and then complete the 30 second skip.
> > > >
> > > >When it is trying to skip, the OSD in the top right corner will do an
> > > >interesting thing.  The total recording length will slowly change.
> > > > Perhaps having an innaccurate total recording length messes with the
> > > > skipping and jumping.
> > > >
> > > >Also, it takes several minutes to resume watching a program from a
> > > > bookmark. All I get is a black screen for a long time, and suddenly
> > > > the program resumes from the bookmark.
> > > >
> > > >I'm running mythtv 0.17 on Debian Sarge, linux 2.4.something on the
> > > > backend.
> > > >
> > > >Any ideas?
> > >
> > > Had the same problem.  The recorded markup table got corrupted.  Run
> > >
> > > mysqlcheck mythconverg
> > >
> > > and fix the errors.  You should be back in action quick.
> > >
> > > Preet
> > >
> > >
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> > Thanks,
> >
> > I fixed the errors in the recorded markup table using mysqlcheck, and I
> > also ran mythcommflag --rebuild.  But I still can't seek properly.  The
> > recorded length is correct or at least consant now, but skipping only
> > moves a couple of seconds.  Anything else I can try?
> >
> > Mark
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> Do you have libmpeg2 decoding enabled? I had problems with seeking
> working properly with this enabled.
>
> Nate
> _______________________________________________


No, I don't.  Oh well, I have a new recording starting in half an hour.  
Hopefully that one will be okay now that my database has been fixed

Thanks all,

Mark


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