[mythtv-users] MythTV 0.22 Live TV Rewind Sort of Broken

[Scott Harris]

Michael T. Dean wrote:
> On 12/04/2009 08:17 PM, Dave Sp wrote:
>> Using an analog Hauppauge PVR-500 (dual-tuner model).
> 
> It (all the stuff I cut out because I didn't feel like fixing the top 
> posting) sounds like you're watching a portion of the video for which 
> the backend has not yet passed the seek information that it builds on 
> the fly.
> 
> The seektable-less seeking is extremely unreliable because it's just an 
> approximation, so until you get the seektable...  (This is why programs 
> that don't use seek tables--xine or MPlayer--can actually skip 
> significantly different amounts from what's requested (or even skip the 
> wrong direction) in some videos.)
> 


I was also seeing this problem with pvr-350 and pvr-150.  For me, it
turned out to be that my DB files/tables had become corrupt, so it
couldn't properly add/adjust entries in the seektable table.  After
repairing the tables my 5 second backwards worked again.


Scott