[mythtv-users] MythTV 0.22 Live TV Rewind Sort of Broken

[Dave Sp]

On Sat, Dec 5, 2009 at 11:19 PM, Scott Harris <mythtv at webhounds.net> wrote:

> Michael T. Dean wrote:
>
>> On 12/04/2009 08:17 PM, Dave Sp wrote:
>>
>>> Using an analog Hauppauge PVR-500 (dual-tuner model).
>>>
>>
>> It (all the stuff I cut out because I didn't feel like fixing the top
>> posting) sounds like you're watching a portion of the video for which the
>> backend has not yet passed the seek information that it builds on the fly.
>>
>> The seektable-less seeking is extremely unreliable because it's just an
>> approximation, so until you get the seektable...  (This is why programs that
>> don't use seek tables--xine or MPlayer--can actually skip significantly
>> different amounts from what's requested (or even skip the wrong direction)
>> in some videos.)
>>
>>
>
> I was also seeing this problem with pvr-350 and pvr-150.  For me, it
> turned out to be that my DB files/tables had become corrupt, so it
> couldn't properly add/adjust entries in the seektable table.  After
> repairing the tables my 5 second backwards worked again.
>
>
> Scott
>
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Solved, thanks to the above suggestions.  After running
"mythtv-0.22/contrib/maintenance/optimize_mythdb.pl", I was once again able
to use the five-second rewind without having to pause, go forward, etc.

Thanks!

--DaveSp
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