[mythtv-users] Weird seeking problems

Preet Khalsa preet at ecbit.com
Mon May 9 14:32:04 UTC 2005


Mark J. Small wrote:

>Hi Everybody,
>
>Something weird just starting happening to me on the weekend.
>
>On Saturday I noticed that my backend had rebooted itself while recording 
>South Park at 1:00 in the morning.  Ever since then, I haven't been able to 
>seek properly while watching recorded programs.  Sometimes, when I try to 
>skip thirty seconds, it will immediately jump about 1 second.  At other time 
>it will pause for about 5-10 seconds and then complete the 30 second skip.  
>
>When it is trying to skip, the OSD in the top right corner will do an 
>interesting thing.  The total recording length will slowly change.  Perhaps 
>having an innaccurate total recording length messes with the skipping and 
>jumping.
>
>Also, it takes several minutes to resume watching a program from a bookmark.  
>All I get is a black screen for a long time, and suddenly the program resumes 
>from the bookmark.
>
>I'm running mythtv 0.17 on Debian Sarge, linux 2.4.something on the backend.
>
>Any ideas?
>  
>
Had the same problem.  The recorded markup table got corrupted.  Run

mysqlcheck mythconverg

and fix the errors.  You should be back in action quick.

Preet




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