[mythtv-users] Commercial skip does not resume normal playback

[Steve Elzinga]

--- Steve Elzinga <steven_elzinga at yahoo.com> wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> I have been having problems when skipping
> commercials
> for my station that receives 1080i format.  When I
> do
> a commercial skip the video will not resume at a
> normal speed.  The video starts off really slow and
> slowly speeds up.  Pausing the show and replaying
> does
> not help.  I do not have this problem when I do the
> 10
> second skip.  Stations that do not broadcast the
> 1080i
> format (720p for example) do not have this problem
> either.  Probably irrelevant but the first audio
> channel that Myth selects (audio channel 2) contains
> no sound so static comes out of the speakers.
> 
> Frontend Hardware:
> Soyo P4RC350 motherboard (ATI chipset)
> onboard ethernet controller (VIA Velocity 1Gb
> running
> at 100 Mb)
> onboard sound card (ATI IXP)
> 512 MB 3200 RAM
> 3.2 GHz Pentium 4
> Nvidia FX 5200 - VGA out
> 
> Frontend Software:
> Gentoo Distribution
> 2.6.12-r4 kernel
> MythTV 18.1
> Xorg (no window manager)
> 
> Backend Hardware:
> Syntax MB (onboard VIA - Samuel2 processor)
> onboard ethernet controller (Realtek type)
> HD3000 HDTV card
> IDE hard drives
> 
> Backend Software:
> Gentoo Distribution
> 2.6.12-r4 kernel
> MythTV 18.1
> 
> I have been running around in circles about this for
> the past week.  Any tips / debugging hints would be
> appreciated.
> 
> Thanks in advance,
> 
> Steve
> 

Just to close my own thread my problem was related to
an improperly configured sound card.  I did not have a
.asoundrc file which seems to have been the problem.

Steve



		
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