[mythtvnz] The Paradigm Shift

[Nick Rout]

On Wed, Oct 28, 2009 at 3:01 PM, Steven Ellis <steven at openmedia.co.nz> wrote:
>
> On Wed, October 28, 2009 9:21 am, Nick Rout wrote:
>> On Wed, Oct 28, 2009 at 8:31 AM, Jonathan Hoskin
>> <jonathan.hoskin at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> >>Playback of an active recording using navigation (pause, FF etc)
>>>>> should
>>>>> >>work.
>>>>>
>>>>> >Again, works for me.
>>>>>
>>>>> It just does not work, it screws up the current position & you can not
>>>>> navigate into parts of the recorded file.
>>>>> This has had displayed the same behaviour for all my experience of
>>>>> MythTV.
>>>>> Please try it inside of first half hour of the news.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> I do this a lot with sports. I've never experienced the problems you're
>>>> describing.
>>>>
>>>> I've been using MythTV for 5 years. In my experience, and from what
>>>> I've
>>>> seen on the main MythTV mailing list over that time, the issues you are
>>>> seeing are not typical. They are most likely caused by something
>>>> specific to
>>>> your setup.
>>>
>>>
>>> I too have the problem, that is; "Seeking past what was the end of the
>>> recording and the time I started watching or seeking". I think it is
>>> only
>>> occurring when watching live or in-progress recordings of Freeview HD.
>>
>> I am pretty sure I have seen this issue reported in the main
>> mythtv-sers mailing list. Check the archives, there may be a fix or
>> news of an impending fix.
>>
>> The workaround is to exit the recording and start watching it again.
>> If you have it set up that way it will start playing again from where
>> you left off, and will be correctly indexed up to the current ("live")
>> position.
>>
>> Clunky but it does work. I expect (but don't know) its to do with the
>> way h264 is indexed within an mpeg2 ts stream. Remembering that those
>> of the devs who live in the US don't have much experience of
>> transmitted h264 (their HD tv is pretty well all mpeg2 encoded).
>
> There have been a number of patches this week relating to h264 indexing.
> Looks like there attempts to fix TS streams started to break playback of
> MKV and other containers. Nice to see that there is work on this
> particular area.
>
> Trialling myPVR 3.0 Beta at the moment which uses 0.22 as a base and I'm
> very impressed, although doing an upgrade of an environment from a
> Knoppmyth 0.20 base to a MythBuntu 9.10 + 0.22 base has been an
> interesting mission.
>

I know you made the decision a long time ago to switch to *buntu, but
I am looking at reverting back from *buntu to linHES, the successor to
knoppmyth. Based on Arch.