[mythtvnz] Anyone using myth backend/xbmc frontend combo?

[Richard Clarke]

Yes I use this combination. I'm running MythTV 0.23.1 on the backend and
XBMC 10.1 on a couple of different frontends, Ubuntu 10.10 based PC's. I
have always experienced the problem with XBMC reporting wrong recording
lengths (Freeview Terrestrial), often it will report a 30 minute recording
as somewhat over 2 hours, and occasionally it's wildly off for example
reporting a recording as more than 200 hours long!

Most of the time it doesn't cause a problem though occasionally the time
line seems so corrupt that it becomes impossible to skip or fast forward
without playback bombing out. However in these cases I believe there may
actually be a problem with the recording as it won't play in other media
players either. Possibly a signal strength problem, although my Freeview
signal level is reported as around 86% by my HDHomeRun tuner with 100%
symbol quality. I don't know what the problem is. If anyone else has more
information on this topic I'd be interested to hear as well.

Cheers
Richard

On 28 May 2011 20:56, Mark de Reeper <mark.dereeper at gmail.com> wrote:

> Just wondering if anyone else is using this combo, 1 in every 10 or so
> recordings have what seems like strange metadata and end up doing
> strange things when it comes to playback.
>
> Things like the wrong length information (recordings say they are 2hrs
> when they are only 1) or recordings that can't be skipped so when you
> try to jump past ads or other points the playback just stops because
> xbmc seems to think the recoding has finished.
>
> Would be keen to hear is anyone else using this combo and having
> similar issues or who may have solved this issue.
>
> Cheers
>
> Mark
>
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