[mythtv-users] HD playback unresponsive to remote presses

[Allen Edwards]

On Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 7:34 AM, Michael T. Dean <mtdean at thirdcontact.com>wrote:

> On 02/20/2009 10:21 AM, James Crow wrote:
> > On Fri, 2009-02-20 at 08:56 -0500, Douglas E. Warner wrote:
> >
> >> Commonly when playing HD content I have trouble having keypresses from
> my
> >> remote (lirc) be registered from mythfrontend.  Sometimes the keypresses
> will
> >> be queued up and handled in a little bit, other times they're just
> ignored
> >> completely.  And then sometimes I can actually do things like
> fast-forward,
> >> rewind, pause, or stop.
> >>
> >> I don't believe I'm maxing-out my dual-core Athlon X2 as I can typically
> ssh
> >> into the box without problems (confirmed by 'top').
> >>
> >> I tried searching the archives, but couldn't really find any solutions
> in the
> >> couple threads I found.
> >>
> >> Are there any settings I should look at to make things more responsive?
> > This thread may help:
> >
> http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/users/347816?search_string=lirckey delay;#347816
> >
> > If not try upgrading to the newest -fixes. I recall some messages from
> > Michael Dean regarding some updates that fixed some lirc keypress
> > problems. I could not find the thread with a quick search, but I think
> > it was svn 199? something.
> http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/users/363974#363974
> http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/users/364018#364018
>
> r19222 had the fix for the issue I thought it may be, but it seems that
> a lot of people having unresponsive keys/buttons during playback were
> having problems due to some other factor.
>
> http://svn.mythtv.org/trac/ticket/5660
> http://svn.mythtv.org/trac/ticket/5973
> and
> http://svn.mythtv.org/trac/ticket/5614 (but the last was trunk)
>
> Mike
> _______
>

This is driving me and my wife nuts.  It is now happening almost every show.
 Perhaps I just didn't notice it before.

Does anyone know how to fix this?

Allen
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