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

[Mark de Reeper]

Hi Richard, 

Your setup sounds almost identical to mine (down to the HDHomeRun), and the same symptoms. At least I am not alone!  Would be happy to report bugs if I knew which part of the system was causing the issue, knowing where to start looking would be a start.

In all the cases I have tired, using VLC to playback the file works fine but I don't remember if it reports the same strange length issues.


Thanks

Mark

On 30/05/2011, at 11:12 AM, Richard Clarke wrote:

> 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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