[mythtv-users] Bookmark brokenness

Karl Newman siliconfiend at gmail.com
Wed Feb 27 20:54:27 UTC 2013


I've been using 0.25 since shortly after it was released about 9 months
ago. Unfortunately, a number of things broke or stopped working correctly
compared to 0.24. Commercial flagging became spotty at best, and Live TV is
a complete mess if you're trying to record what you're watching (or watch
what you're recording), and MythMusic's interface became baffling and
difficult such that we hardly use it anymore. I think those issues have
already been thrashed on this mailing list, but there's another one that I
haven't seen mentioned. We use the "save bookmark and exit" feature and
it's counterpart "clear bookmark on playback" or whatever it's called.
Frequently (but not always?) if we exit playback from a paused state, the
bookmark will not be saved. Our workaround has been to hit play briefly
before escape. What might be another symptom is that when I press pause,
the progress bar displays with the current position briefly, then it goes
to 0:00:00. This is only for recordings; LiveTV shows the correct position
on the progress bar. Another, similar problem is if I accidentally hit skip
forward while paused, it starts playing in fast forward (it's
possible/likely the same key is mapped to both functions). Then I come to
my senses and hit Play again to resume normal speed but that typically
makes it jump back to the beginning and start playing from there again. I
can't remember exactly but I think it's more likely to happen if I've hit
the skip forward button several times in a row (like I would if I was
skipping commercials). I don't have any logs to show yet but I was
wondering if anyone else had seen that or could reproduce the problem. I've
had it since the first version of 0.25 and it's still there in 0.25.3 from
around the first of the year.

I'm using the MythCenter-wide theme if that matters.

Thanks,

Karl

P.S., I'm not upgrading to 0.26+ because I have an ivtv device and my
family uses LiveTV and I haven't heard that the problem has been resolved.
I seem to recall there were other unresolved (ffmpeg-related?) breakages,
too.
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