[mythtv-users] Watching active recordings stops on remote frontends

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Josh White wrote:
> I'm not experiencing the problem, and I'm also running the same
> version on the same OS.  You MUST be doing it wrong :-)
>
Well, there's only so many ways you can start watching a recording
that's currently in progress. :-)

I've got a separate frontend and backend.  Backend runs on an OpenSUSE
10.3 box and uses a 3ware RAID card for storage.  It uses XFS with
allocsize set to 512M on mount to prevent fragmentation.  The frontend
uses Ubuntu 7.10.  The recordings directory is shared out from the
backend box over the LAN using NFS.  How does your setup differ?

> On Feb 5, 2008 3:11 PM, lists_mythtv_users
> <lists_mythtv_users at bigpizza.co.uk
> <mailto:lists_mythtv_users at bigpizza.co.uk>> wrote:
>
>     lists_mythtv_users wrote:
>     > Jarett Creason wrote:
>     >
>     >> Hey all,
>     >>
>     >> I'm having a problem with my Myth setup (0.20.2), I searched the
>     >> archives but couldn't find this...  Yesterday, I set the Super
>     Bowl to
>     >> record from my master backend/frontend machine, and it uses the
>     >> HDHomeRun tuner.  On that machine, I was able to go to the
>     recordings
>     >> screen, select the recoding and tell it to play, then jump up
>     to "real
>     >> time" and watch it as it happens.  I have two other remote
>     frontends I
>     >> also wanted to watch the game from.  I did the same thing, went the
>     >> recordings menu, played the recording, then jumped to a few seconds
>     >> behind real time, but then the playback would exit back to the
>     >> recordings screen, like the recording was over.  I tried again, but
>     >> this time I'd jump to a minute behind, but then after a minute
>     or so,
>     >> it would exit again, like the recording was done.  What I
>     figured out
>     >> was that when I press play on the recording, where ever the
>     stream is
>     >> currently at, that's where it exits once it reaches that point,
>     like
>     >> it doesn't update how long the recording is while it plays.
>     >>
>     >> For example (since I may not be too clear), I press play on the
>     Super
>     >> Bowl, and when I first get the picture, I press the info
>     button, and
>     >> it says that I'm 1 second into the recording, and the recording's
>     >> current length is 4 minutes and 30 seconds.  The recording is
>     growing
>     >> though, since it's in progress.  If I just let it play, 4
>     minutes and
>     >> 30 seconds later, the recording is 9 minutes long, but the playback
>     >> exits right there.
>     >>
>     >> I was able to just "Watch TV" on one of the two remote
>     frontends using
>     >> the 2nd tuner on the HDHomeRun, which worked fine, so I had it
>     playing
>     >> in two places...  Thanks for any help, and if I'm overlooking some
>     >> thread or already known fix for this, please just point me in the
>     >> right direction.
>     >>
>     >>
>     > For info, I have been experiencing exactly the same problem.
>      The time
>     > offset from the beginning of a recording at which I start
>     viewing it is
>     > the time at which the recording will finish being played by the
>     frontend.
>     >
>     >
>     From the lack of responses on the list can I assume that no-one
>     else is
>     experiencing the same problem?  I'm running 0.20.2 on Ubuntu 7.10.
>     Positive confirmation from some of you kind people that you're not
>     experiencing the problem would be appreciated.  It would show me that
>     the problem lies outside of my myth install and could be due to my
>     combination of hardware for instance.
>
>     Regards,
>
>     Steve.
>
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