[mythtv-users] Can't solve a problem with Skipping/Fast Forwarding

Leo Kliger lkliger at bigpond.net.au
Mon Aug 14 10:16:17 UTC 2006


On Mon, 2006-08-14 at 10:06 +0100, Stephen Robertson wrote:
> I've got a problem when watching recordings that Fast Forward and
> Rewind as well as skipping doesn't work. Ocassionally it will fast
> forward correctly at 3x but most of the time it "gets stuck" cycling
> through the same few frames.  When I go back to play it doesn't seem
> to be consistent what happens, sometimes it has actually worked,
> sometimes it jumps back to where I started from, and sometimes it goes
> straight to the end of the recording.  My setup is a backend running
> SVN 10734 and a frontend running MiniMyth (Myth SVN 10355).  It
> doesn't appear to be a performance issue with either setup or the
> networking.  Also I've checked using another frontend on a laptop and
> skipping etc works fine.  So I'm pretty confident that the issue lies
> with the Frontend.  I've seen sugestions that this behaviour can be
> caused by NTP issues.  I think that I have got this configured
> correctly. 
> 
> I have to say I am at a loss what to look at next.  Any suggestions?
> 
You say that you've checked NTP.

But I had this problem when my backend and frontends had different
timezone settings. That's the next thing I'd check.

Leo



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