[mythtv-users] WAF Emergency - FFwd not working smoothly, Commercial skip being a LITTLE flakey.

[Michael Jones]

Skipping works perfectly.. I'm talking about the true fast forward
(double/triple etc forward and reverse)




> From: David <myth at dgreaves.com>
> Reply-To: Discussion about mythtv <mythtv-users at mythtv.org>
> Date: Wed, 07 Sep 2005 22:46:11 +0100
> To: Discussion about mythtv <mythtv-users at mythtv.org>
> Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] WAF Emergency - FFwd not working smoothly,
> Commercial skip being a LITTLE flakey.
> 
> Odd.
> 
> On my system a copy and a symlink have the same behaviour.
> I obviously saw the same archive entry and I didn't believe it (!) so I
> tried both a symlink and copy and made sure to restart Myth etc etc.
> 
> Maybe permissions?
> What distro? I'm on Debian testing.
> 
> David
> PS, by fwd/rew, do you mean the 5/30 second skip? or do you mean double
> speed/reverse speed playback?
> I mean the 5/30 skipping.
> 
> matt lutz wrote:
> 
>>  
>> David,
>>  
>> Actually - if I just copy the file there, I get the weird ffwd/rew
>> problem that was mentioned at the start of this thread.  If I convert
>> it to a symbolic link, it fixes the issue (at least for me).  It
>> doesn't even matter that the checksums of the files were exactly the
>> same...
>>  
>> Matt
>> 
>>  
>> On 9/7/05, *David* <myth at dgreaves.com <mailto:myth at dgreaves.com>> wrote:
>> 
>>     The localtime file is indeed essential to the correct functioning
>>     of Myth.
>> 
>>     However I'm pretty sure it doesn't need to be a link/symlink -
>>     this is a
>>     myth (with a small m) :)
>> 
>>     (try it - I did)
>> 
>>     David
>> 
>>     matt lutz wrote:
>> 
>>> Michael,
>>> 
>>> I experienced the exact same ffwd/rwd problem for a while... I came
>>> upon a fix in the archives that was pretty peculiar, but it does
>>> work.  Check to see if your /etc/localtime file is a link or an
>>     actual
>>> file.  If it's a file, then delete it, link it with the proper
>>     file in
>>> /usr/share/zoneinfo directory.  Use the following commands:
>>> 
>>> rm /etc/localtime
>>> ln -s /usr/share/zoneinfo/EST5EDT /etc/localtime
>>> 
>>> obviously substitute the "EST5EDT" with whatever timezone you are
>>> actually in.  I haven't been able to find why this works, but it
>>> definately does for me.
>>> 
>>> As for the commercial skip... I have also noticed some
>>     incosistencies
>>> in what is a commercial and what is actual programming as well,
>>     and do
>>> not enable skipping anymore.
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> On 8/30/05, *Michael Jones* <m_g_j at michaelandholly.com
>>     <mailto:m_g_j at michaelandholly.com>
>>> <mailto:m_g_j at michaelandholly.com
>>     <mailto:m_g_j at michaelandholly.com>>> wrote:
>>> 
>>>     I'm trying to solve a couple problems to increase the WAF of my
>>>     system.
>>> 
>>>     So far the system is working VERY well.  WAF is pretty high, but
>>>     she's
>>>     complaining about a couple items.
>>> 
>>>     1)  When fast forwarding through a recorded program you can hit
>>>     the button
>>>     once and sometimes twice and get relatively smooth
>>     playback... Any
>>>     more than
>>>     that and things pause or glitch in some way.. And then playback
>>>     pauses and
>>>     sometimes even goes back to where you started Ffwding.
>>> 
>>>     2)  When coming to the end of a program the system will
>>     often skip
>>>     the last
>>>     couple of minutes after the last commercial break.
>>> 
>>>     Any ideas on these?
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
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