[mythtv-users] Watching active recordings stops on remote frontends

[Josh White]

I'm not experiencing the problem, and I'm also running the same version on
the same OS.  You MUST be doing it wrong :-)

On Feb 5, 2008 3:11 PM, lists_mythtv_users <
lists_mythtv_users at bigpizza.co.uk> wrote:

> lists_mythtv_users wrote:
> > Jarett Creason wrote:
> >
> >> Hey all,
> >>
> >> I'm having a problem with my Myth setup (0.20.2), I searched the
> >> archives but couldn't find this...  Yesterday, I set the Super Bowl to
> >> record from my master backend/frontend machine, and it uses the
> >> HDHomeRun tuner.  On that machine, I was able to go to the recordings
> >> screen, select the recoding and tell it to play, then jump up to "real
> >> time" and watch it as it happens.  I have two other remote frontends I
> >> also wanted to watch the game from.  I did the same thing, went the
> >> recordings menu, played the recording, then jumped to a few seconds
> >> behind real time, but then the playback would exit back to the
> >> recordings screen, like the recording was over.  I tried again, but
> >> this time I'd jump to a minute behind, but then after a minute or so,
> >> it would exit again, like the recording was done.  What I figured out
> >> was that when I press play on the recording, where ever the stream is
> >> currently at, that's where it exits once it reaches that point, like
> >> it doesn't update how long the recording is while it plays.
> >>
> >> For example (since I may not be too clear), I press play on the Super
> >> Bowl, and when I first get the picture, I press the info button, and
> >> it says that I'm 1 second into the recording, and the recording's
> >> current length is 4 minutes and 30 seconds.  The recording is growing
> >> though, since it's in progress.  If I just let it play, 4 minutes and
> >> 30 seconds later, the recording is 9 minutes long, but the playback
> >> exits right there.
> >>
> >> I was able to just "Watch TV" on one of the two remote frontends using
> >> the 2nd tuner on the HDHomeRun, which worked fine, so I had it playing
> >> in two places...  Thanks for any help, and if I'm overlooking some
> >> thread or already known fix for this, please just point me in the
> >> right direction.
> >>
> >>
> > For info, I have been experiencing exactly the same problem.  The time
> > offset from the beginning of a recording at which I start viewing it is
> > the time at which the recording will finish being played by the
> frontend.
> >
> >
> From the lack of responses on the list can I assume that no-one else is
> experiencing the same problem?  I'm running 0.20.2 on Ubuntu 7.10.
> Positive confirmation from some of you kind people that you're not
> experiencing the problem would be appreciated.  It would show me that
> the problem lies outside of my myth install and could be due to my
> combination of hardware for instance.
>
> Regards,
>
> Steve.
>
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