[mythtv-users] Resuming after fast forward...

Enigma enigma at thedonnerparty.com
Tue Aug 26 06:55:47 UTC 2008


Mike wrote:

> I just installed a new Myth system under Ubuntu 8.04. I grabbed the latest
> thing in the Ubuntu repositories and I have to say there are some really
> great new features. Firewire (capture) is working perfectly, input groups
> are awesome (for Firewire) and the installation was a snap.
>
> I've noticed a couple of differences between how my system worked before
> and
> how it works now. Most of them are nice improvements but one is kind of
> driving me nuts. Surprisingly, I don't see any mention of it in the mailing
>
> list so I'm trying to figure out if it just bothers me or if it only
> affects
> me.
>
> When I fast forward a show I can select 3x, 5x, 10x, ... 120x just as
> before. But, when I hit "play" while fast-forwarding my system used to take
>
> the current point in the fast-forward, jump back some specified amount (to
> compensate for response time of the user, etc) and then...PLAY. Now it does
>
> all those things except it PAUSES when its done. I've been looking through
> the fast-forwarding settings and I don't see anything that controls this.
>
> I'm assuming this is some new behavior in the more recent versions of
> MythTV
> (I was running an SVN version before, probably 0.20-fixes or something). Is
>
> this really a new feature or is my system just messed up somehow? If it is
> a new feature, how do I change it back to the old behavior. If it isn't a
> feature, any ideas on what I can do to stop this behavior?!?


I don't know how other people implement this, but I have my 'PLAY' key
mapped to send Myth an 'I' (as in information) and my 'PAUSE' key mapped to
send 'P'.  When I am sticky fast forwarding play will bring me out of it
like normal, if I am not it will toggle the informational OSD.
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