[mythtv] Seek (back and forth) broken in MythTV trunk r23186

[Newbury]

So exactly *why* did the stickykeys mode get removed? The absolute  
jump replacement does not seem too useful to me, especially the  
forward version. And I still don't see where the skip intervals are  
set (settings table??)

Geoff

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On 2010-01-19, at 1:22, "Michael T. Dean" <mtdean at thirdcontact.com>  
wrote:

> On 01/18/2010 10:10 PM, Newbury wrote:
>> On 2010-01-18, at 2:42, "Michael T. Dean" wrote:
>>> On 01/17/2010 07:46 PM, agraham wrote:
>>>> I just upgraded my mythtv 0.22 to trunk r23186
>>>>
>>>> It appears that the seek forward and backward is completely broken
>>>> when viewing TV recordings.
>>>>
>>>> Lets suppose while watching any existing record (or live TV) I  
>>>> wish to
>>>> jump ahead 5 minutes, I would normally  press 5 then right arrow -
>>>> this now always brings me to the end of the record.
>>>>
>>>> If I try to rewind 5 minutes, I press 5 left arrow and now this  
>>>> always
>>>> brings me to the beginning of the recording.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Not sure when this problem got introduced, or if the logic has  
>>>> changed
>>>> but this was a really useful feature.
>>>>
>>>> Now in order to seek I must use right or left arrow and watch it  
>>>> seek
>>>> on screen x3 x5 x10 x20... x180.
>>>
>>> You had StickyKeys enabled--which allowed you to hit Left/Right  
>>> once and
>>> the player stuck in rewind/fast-forward mode.  There is no longer a
>>> StickyKeys setting, so Left and Right are now mapped to the  
>>> RWNDSTICKY
>>> and FFWDSTICKY actions in TV Playback context (which are used for
>>> absolute seeks when preceded by numbers).
>>>
>>> If you want to use incremental seek, you'll need to unmap Left/Right
>>> from RWNDSTICKY/FFWDSTICKY and map them to SEEKRWND/SEEKFFWD (i.e.
>>> disable the "use Left/Right as sticky keys") or map some other  
>>> keys to
>>> SEEKRWND/SEEKFFWD and use those keys instead of Left/Right for
>>> incremental seek.
>>
>> Ok. Just took a look at the Edit Keys section of Setup. Guess I took
>> THREE stupid pills this morning. Kinda slow Getting with the program
>> here. Will play more later. Not allowed to type in bed!
>
> Heh, you saw that I did the same thing last night.  :)  But, yeah,
> you'll need to use the action names in MythControls (Edit Keys) to
> ensure we're talking about the same thing.
>
> So, let's try this again.  The keys listed in keys.txt only apply to  
> the
> default binding of keys in MythTV, so anyone with customized key
> bindings needs to translate the default bindings listed in keys.txt to
> their customized bindings for the documentation to be useful.
>
> That said, when the StickyKeys setting was removed, the key bindings  
> for
> users who had StickyKeys enabled were changed such that
> SEEKRWND/SEEKFFWD (by default, Left/Right) were no longer bound to any
> keys and Left/Right were added to the bindings for RWNDSTICKY/ 
> FFWDSTICKY
> (which started at--by default--comma and less than/period and greater
> than).  This allows the Left/Right keys to work like they did with
> StickyKeys enabled (pressing Left starts sticky rewind mode and  
> pressing
> right starts sticky fast forward mode) without requiring the user to
> remap buttons on their remotes.  It does, however, mean that key
> bindings are now customized for those users, so the behavior of
> Left/Right differs from that described in keys.txt.
>
> So, basically, your Left/Right are now bound to RWNDSTICKY/FFWDSTICKY
> (which keys.txt represents with </>), so they perform the functions of
> RWNDSTICKY/FFWDSTICKY.  Straight out of keys.txt:
>
> - < starts sticky rewind mode
>    If a jump amount is entered, jump to that position.
> - > starts sticky fast forward mode
>    If a jump amount is entered, jump that amount from the end.
>   While in sticky fast forward or rewind mode.
>   - Left/Right increases the ff/rew speed.
>   - 0 plays at normal speed, but leaves the time indicator on screen.
>   - 1 or 2 plays back more slowly than normal ff/rew speed (1 is  
> slowest).
>   - 3 plays back at normal ff/rew speed.
>   - 4 - 9 plays back faster than normal ff/rew speed (9 is fastest).
>   - Space exits fast forward or rewind mode.
>
> What you /used/ to see was Left/Right being bound to SEEKRWND/ 
> SEEKFFWD.
> From keys.txt:
>
> - Left arrow  Skip back
> - Right arrow Skip ahead
>  NOTE: During playback of a recording you can enter a number of  
> minutes to
>        jump before using the Skip key. Otherwise, the configured  
> defaults
>        will be used. Seconds can be entered by entering four digits  
> in the
>        MMss format.
>
> So you're wanting to use the "incremental" seek made possible with
> SEEKRWND/SEEKFFWD, but the button you're using is mapped to
> RWNDSTICKY/FFWDSTICKY, which gives a different behavior (the  
> "absolute"
> seek you're now seeing).  So, you can either change your Myth key
> bindings as desired, or change your remote button mappings as desired.
>
> Oh, and thanks for making me go through this--it made me notice that  
> the
> info in keys.txt for this is likely (way, way, way) out of date.  I'm
> pretty sure you can never do MMss format, it's always minutes up to  
> 99,
> then goes to HMM format (or HHMM or ...).  In my testing, at least,
> doing any 4 digit number always results in jumping to the end of the
> recording, and I don't have any 10+ hour recordings to verify it's
> jumping 10hrs and 13min or whatever.  And, I noticed that we (now)  
> have
> a redundant listing for Left/Right (and I'm pretty sure the extra one
> was my doing)...
>
> Mike
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