[mythtv-users] corrupted time table

[Michael T. Dean]

On 11/17/2009 02:23 AM, Stef Coene wrote:
>> The time displayed in the OSD is an estimate and it's not always correct
>> (some of my 60-minute recordings show as being about 52 minutes long,
>> but they're actually about 60 minutes of playback).
>>
>> Also, the seektable may not be correct during LiveTV or recordings in
>> progress.  If you enter playback after the recording finished, you
>> should get a valid seektable (again, note that the OSD times are
>> estimates).  If you don't, please see
>> http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Repairing_the_Seektable /
>>     
> I also have this when the recording is finished recording (pff, what a 
> sentence).
> But I don't have this on recordings recorded before the upgrade to 0.22.  So 
> it has something to do with the new 0.22 backend.
> I will try to repair the seektable to see if that makes any difference.
>   

There's likely something else going on if it's more than just the 
"estimate is not accurate" display issue, so fixing the seektable won't 
help.

>>> Also, at the end of a recording there is also something wrong with
>>> timing. When 2 recordings are scheduled after each other and only 1 tuner
>>> is used, some video is missing.  When looking at the logs from the
>>> backend, the second recording starts right after the first recording
>>> ends.
>>>       
>> That's the time taken to shut down the old recorder and then start the
>> new recorder (including all its initialization, such as changing the
>> channel).  Note that this is always done--even for back-to-back
>> recordings on the same tuner and same channel.
>>     
> And this can be a few minutes????  And I didn't had this before the 0.22 
> upgrade.  Starting livetv requires also that the tuner tunes in and it takes 4 
> seconds before the video starts playing.  Far less then the video that I miss 
> between 2 recordings.

Should be only a few seconds.

Mike