[mythtv-users] Still can't get fast forward / rewind working properly on 0.19-fixes 2006-04-11

[Ronald Pijnacker]

> I've never had FFW/REW working properly on mythtv... ever. I always
> had to use the skip forward or skip back buttons. This doesn't bother
> me particularly, but it's a show stopper for the rest of the (VCR
> trained) family. They like to be able to see the action and stop it
> when they get to a familiar location.
> 
> Anyway, here's the problem:
> 
> I press FFW or REW and the video starts playing back at 3x the normal
> rate, i haven't tried faster. As I approach my target point in the
> video, I press play. Playback resumes normally, but at the same time
> that I had originally started fast forwarding or rewinding, rather
> than the new time. In effect, the FFW or REW is totally useless.
> 
> Interestingly, this has been a problem the entire time I've been using
> mythtv -- since 0.13.
> 
> Perhaps it's a distribution or hardware specific bug?
> 
> Backend hardware:
> 2.8GHz P4
> 512MB DDR2
> PVR150-MCE
> PVR250-MCE
> 
> Frontend hardware:
> 1.5GHz Athlon XP
> 512MB DDR
> FX5200 using DVI out
> Sound Blaster Live! 5.1
> 
> Both computers are running the same -fixes branch mythtv, both
> computers have the same kernels (2.6.16.2), and both are running the
> current Arch Linux distribution.
> 
> Others having this problem?

Yes, I did. For me that was a reason to revert to skipping and train my
family to accept this too.

  Ronald.