[mythtv-users] Mythtv usability, the Superbowl and a couple of issues

[Justin Johnson]

On Sun, Feb 6, 2011 at 11:05 PM,  <boehm100 at comcast.net> wrote:
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> 3) 1.5x playback speed is VERY jumpy. I tried CPU-- and slim with little effect.  My guess is that this is a limitation of FFmpeg.  It seem worse than in pervious versions if Mythtv. I wish Rewind/FFwd and higher speed playback was liquid smooth.  It's nasty horrible. (Very technical description, I know.)

See this thread: http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/users/461284
and this ticket: http://code.mythtv.org/trac/attachment/ticket/7964/
The patch supplied there has already been applied to master but was
not applied to 0.24-fixes. Since you're already building on your own,
the patch there should help immensely.

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> 4) Is there a one key toggle, for turning on and off accelerated playback? There are a lot of key presses to move thru the menu.  The family approval factor took a hit. I'm expecting a "look it up in the manual" answer for this one. :-)

There is, though I don't know what it is by default. Look in mythweb
or the key binding editor for Toggle Timestretch.

--Justin Johnson