[mythtv-users] Position bar broken with DVB-T radio

[Nick Rout]

On Fri, Feb 11, 2011 at 12:33 PM, John Pilkington <J.Pilk at tesco.net> wrote:
> On 10/02/11 20:21, John Veness wrote:
>>
>> On 07/02/11 10:23, John Veness wrote:
>>>
>>> After I installed the latest Mythbuntu 0.24-fixes autobuilds on the
>>> weekend, the position bar (that you see when you press I, or when you
>>> seek forwards or backwards) doesn't work properly on UK DVB-T radio
>>> programmes, i.e. ones with audio and MHEG-only, no video.
>>>
>>> It shows the length of the show OK, but the position is always 0:00.
>>
>> Another observation to add to this problem: If I press E to go into the
>> editor, then I do see the position within the show correctly (although
>> of course that pauses playback so is not as useful as pressing I).
>>
>> I can file this as a bug, but it would help if someone else could
>> confirm this problem?
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> John
>>
> I can confirm that I see this when running the new Atrpms build for CentOS
> 5, v0.24-152-g6dd5e4b; it shows on both a recording made today after
> installing that and one dating from December last year.
>
> I don't think I saw it when playing the earlier recording in earlier builds,
> but I usually discard all but the mp2 track and play that outside MythTV, so
> I can't be certain that I would have noticed.
>
> My recording of today's programme on my f13 box, still running the previous
> build, v-0.24-150-g08a8a65, shows a usefully active position bar.
>
> John P


same here, dvb-s in NZ from freeview, Radio NZ National (50), counter
stays at 0:00 but length increases - this is on Live TV (which seems a
funny term for a radio stream).

*/Wild Postulation/* Is the counter somehow counting video frames, but
there is no video in the stream?