[mythtv-users] seek past a cut

[John Veness]

On 25/02/2011 01:17, Joey Morris wrote:
> Suppose my cutlist includes a cut from the 6 minute mark to the 9
> minute mark of a recording. If Myth has just skipped the cut during
> playback, and now I'm at 9:03, for example, what should I do if I want
> to seek back a few seconds to what I just saw before the cut? Using
> SEEKRWND (bound to my left arrow and set to a 10 second jump) takes me
> back to the most recent cutpoint, i.e., the 9 minute mark.
>
> I understand that Myth is interpreting this as "OK, you want to jump
> back 10 seconds from 9:03, so that takes you to 8:53. But that's
> inside a cut, so I'll move you forward to the end of the cut at 9:00."
> It seems more natural to me that the cut would be excluded from the 10
> second jump, and therefore it would take me back to 5:53. Was this an
> intentional design decision, is this a bug, or is this just something
> that doesn't come up much so no one has really considered it?

Prior to 0.24, Myth did work the way you describe as "more natural", 
i.e. you could seek back through a cut, so this is a new bug in 0.24. 
See http://code.mythtv.org/trac/ticket/9213 for more.

For me, transcoding (even lossless transcoding) does not work around the 
issue, because that loses DVB-T subtitles.

Cheers,

John

-- 
John Veness, MythTV user, UK, DVB-T