[mythtv-users] Can't playback recorded shows but preview works - SOLVED

Mike Holden mythtv at mikeholden.org
Thu May 8 10:40:08 UTC 2008


Misty P wrote:
> Michael T. Dean wrote:
>> Heh.  That's the exact problem I'm currently working on solving (in
>> #5319), but I didn't think of it when I saw your post.  I hope in 0.22
>> we'll have it working so if you start a frontend or slave backend
>> whose time zone differs from that of the master backend, it will exit
>> with a useful error message saying that you need to fix your time zone
>> configuration.
>
> Playing devil's advocate, wouldn't it be more useful to spit up a box
> asking
> if you wanted to continue and inherit the backend's TZ, or quit?  (I'm
> thinking of a really broken distro that's on a RO filesystem, such as a
> DVD-R, that's otherwise correct.)

What happens if the BE and FE really are in different timezones, but the
"real" (UTC) time of both of them is the same? This is technically
feasible (e.g. accessing your home BE when on holiday "just over the
border"), and should work correctly once the 2 times are converted to UTC.
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