[mythtv-users] Adjust Audio Sync issue during recording playback

[Tom Lichti]

On Tue, Aug 20, 2013 at 9:25 AM, Jim Stichnoth <stichnot at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Sat, Aug 17, 2013 at 4:58 PM, Dave Ulrick <d-ulrick at comcast.net> wrote:
>
>> Some of the recordings I make occasionally have lipsync issues. While
>> playing them in mythfrontend (0.26), I use Menu -> Audio -> Adjust Audio
>> Sync while playing the recording. The right and left arrows increase and
>> decrease the audio sync value, and Enter or Esc accept the value. This is
>> fine if I already have a good idea of which sync value is optimal for the
>> recording, but sometimes I need to watch the recording for a while to
>> confirm that my audio sync adjustment is correct. If I wait too long, the
>> Audio Sync adjustment GUI is automatically exited. If I don't notice this
>> and try to make further sync adjustments with the arrow keys, I sometimes
>> end up skipping forward or back within the recording. This can be quite an
>> inconvenience.
>>
>> Is there any way to configure mythfrontend so the Audio Sync adjustment
>> GUI would stay active until I hit Enter or Esc? I'd like to be able to
>> "sit" in the Audio Sync GUI until I've watched as much of the recording as
>> necessary to confirm that I've got the adjustment tweaked to my liking.
>>
>> There's no way to do at present this without modifying the code.
>
> However, this is a very legitimate complaint that has bothered me for
> years, so I finally did something about it. :)  For Master / 0.27, the
> dialog timeouts are disabled for these dialogs:
>   Adjust Audio Sync
>   Adjust Subtitle Delay
>   Adjust Subtitle Zoom
>   Adjust Time Stretch
>
> Changes made are applied in real time (as before), and the dialog goes
> away only when you press SELECT, EXIT, or some other action that brings up
> a different dialog.
>
> Jim
>
>
How is that for developer responsiveness! Thanks Jim, this was something
that bothered me, but not enough to complain about. It really is about the
little things sometimes.

Tom
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