[mythtvnz] tuner and playback of freeview HD DVB-T

[Steve V]

----- Original Message ----
> From: Aaron Drysdale <aarond at postec.co.nz>
> To: MythTV in NZ <mythtvnz at lists.linuxnut.co.nz>
> Sent: Thu, October 8, 2009 10:44:08 AM
> Subject: Re: [mythtvnz] tuner and playback of freeview HD DVB-T
> 
> I should add that the reason I am going to be changing to Myth 0.22,
> aside from the sexy new MythUI, is that HD playback does still have a
> few niggles. I have DVB-S and DVB-T tuners, and 90% of the time I end up
> watching DVB-S because you never know when these niggles will strike.
> Such as - I have problems skipping during HD playback when I am watching
> something that is still recording, and I get random problems with lots
> of macro blocking during playback. Not always, but enough that it makes
> it slightly unreliable.
> 
> I am hoping that MythTV 0.22 will iron these out.
> 
> Aaron

I also have the problem with skipping if a recording is still recording. It is related to when you start watching.

For example if the show starts at 8:30pm and you start watching at 9:00pm you can skip forward fine until you reach the point at which the recording was at when you started watching. So in the example 30 minutes into the show skipping forward no longer works correctly. What I tend to do is stop the playback 30 minutes after I start and restart it, this usually takes me through to the end.

I have to say that in most cases I usually don't watch anything until it has finished recording so I see this as only a minor inconvenience.