[mythtv-users] Live TV bug.

[Jeremy D. Eiden]

On 1/16/21 9:45 PM, Bob Long wrote:
> Douglas Peale wrote on 17/1/21 1:00 pm:
>> I have seen this issue a few times, but I don't know how to cause it to happen.
>>
>> While watching live TV, not currently time shifted, I hit the 'p' button to pause.
>
> Which version?
>
> Version 0.28 results below. Maybe things have changed.
>> The image freezes, and sound stops like it is supposed to, but both the total time and current position time keep advancing.
> I see the total time increase, and the progress bar shrinks in 
> proportion to the total. That seems ok to me.
>> Hit the left arrow, and the current position stops, and the image changes to a freeze frame of the current live time, then
>> progress display fades away.
>
> Hit left arrow, screen looks the same (but has actually reversed a 
> frame or so). On-screen display fades away.
>
> But I'm not sure what you mean by "the image changes to a freeze frame 
> of the current live time". It you pause at say, 30 seconds, that's the 
> image that should stay on the screen.
>
>> This is annoying because one looses the original stopped position.
>
> For me, it's good that the OSD disappears, because there's often 
> something on that part of the screen that I want to see.
>
> Press left or right arrow again and the OSD reappears briefly. The 
> "frozen" time should reappear and be what it was when paused, but the 
> total time will have increased.
>
> -- 
>
> Bob Long
>
>> This happened while watching football on NBC.
>>
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>
I can verify this does not happen on 0.29 either.

Jeremy