[mythtv-users] Have to start shows twice -- database problem???

[faginbagin]

On 03/04/2013 12:28 AM, Allen Edwards wrote:
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> On Wed, Feb 27, 2013 at 9:37 AM, Jim Stichnoth <stichnot at gmail.com <mailto:stichnot at gmail.com>> wrote:
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>     On Wed, Feb 27, 2013 at 9:18 AM, Allen Edwards
>     <allen.p.edwards at gmail.com <mailto:allen.p.edwards at gmail.com>> wrote:
>      > I have done some things and so far no problems with Myth having to double
>      > start or losing its place.  I thank everyone who offered suggestions as this
>      > led to what I did.  Hopefully this situation will hold but I wanted to
>      > document what I did.
>      >
>      > 1) Removed years of recording rules for shows that are no longer on the air
>      > as well as duplicate rules that were entered to change record daily to
>      > record weekly and things like that.  We have never done this.  This removed
>      > probably 75% of the rules.  I did this from MythWeb
>      > 2) Removed all the movies we are never going to watch or have already
>      > watched.  We don't watch movies twice and periodically clean out the old
>      > ones.  This is an ongoing chore so we did it and probably removed 15% of the
>      > movies.
>      > 3) Removed all the TV recordings we are never going to watch.  This probably
>      > removed 5% of the shows.
>      > 4) On MythWeb in the tools page under data base, did all the checks and
>      > optimizations that are there.
>      >
>      > I also checked the fragmentation level on the second disk drive.  it was 37%
>      > fragmented but I did not defrag it.  I did not check the main disk.
>      >
>      > So, as I said so far so good. I hope this continues.
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>     I think that only #4 could have had any effect on that behavior.
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>     That said, one detail sticks with me.  It's not nice to lose your
>     bookmark when playback fails for some reason.  I'll add that to my
>     list.  (but don't expect it in 0.21 :)  )
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>     Jim
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> But doing #4 before doing the other things did not fix the problem.  The problem has not re-occurred yet so I am really hopefully it is actually gone.
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> Allen

As for losing your bookmark, why not uncheck the "Clear bookmark on playback" setting? Then if the problem does reoccur, you'll still have the bookmark. You can always reposition the bookmark to the beginning using this sequence: pause, 0, rewind (e.g. <), esc. Or you can choose Menu, "Play from ...", "Play from beginning" if you forget those steps.

HTH,
Helen