[mythtv-users] Bookmark brokenness

[Karl Newman]

On Wed, Feb 27, 2013 at 1:18 PM, Jim Stichnoth <stichnot at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Wed, Feb 27, 2013 at 12:54 PM, Karl Newman <siliconfiend at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > I've been using 0.25 since shortly after it was released about 9 months
> ago.
> > Unfortunately, a number of things broke or stopped working correctly
> > compared to 0.24. Commercial flagging became spotty at best, and Live TV
> is
> > a complete mess if you're trying to record what you're watching (or watch
> > what you're recording), and MythMusic's interface became baffling and
> > difficult such that we hardly use it anymore. I think those issues have
> > already been thrashed on this mailing list, but there's another one that
> I
> > haven't seen mentioned. We use the "save bookmark and exit" feature and
> it's
> > counterpart "clear bookmark on playback" or whatever it's called.
> Frequently
> > (but not always?) if we exit playback from a paused state, the bookmark
> will
> > not be saved. Our workaround has been to hit play briefly before escape.
> > What might be another symptom is that when I press pause, the progress
> bar
> > displays with the current position briefly, then it goes to 0:00:00.
> This is
> > only for recordings; LiveTV shows the correct position on the progress
> bar.
> > Another, similar problem is if I accidentally hit skip forward while
> paused,
> > it starts playing in fast forward (it's possible/likely the same key is
> > mapped to both functions). Then I come to my senses and hit Play again to
> > resume normal speed but that typically makes it jump back to the
> beginning
> > and start playing from there again. I can't remember exactly but I think
> > it's more likely to happen if I've hit the skip forward button several
> times
> > in a row (like I would if I was skipping commercials). I don't have any
> logs
> > to show yet but I was wondering if anyone else had seen that or could
> > reproduce the problem. I've had it since the first version of 0.25 and
> it's
> > still there in 0.25.3 from around the first of the year.
> >
> > I'm using the MythCenter-wide theme if that matters.
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Karl
> >
> > P.S., I'm not upgrading to 0.26+ because I have an ivtv device and my
> family
> > uses LiveTV and I haven't heard that the problem has been resolved. I
> seem
> > to recall there were other unresolved (ffmpeg-related?) breakages, too.
>
> The progress bar showing 0 while paused sounds like
> http://code.mythtv.org/trac/ticket/10962 .  It would be nice to figure
> out how to reproduce it.  "Losing" the bookmark is exactly what would
> happen if the system believes the playback position is at frame 0 when
> you exit.
>
> The problem in 0.26 with Live TV startup with analog PVR-xxx tuners
> was fixed in
> http://code.mythtv.org/cgit/mythtv/commit/?id=a1b9b1f94a774710443637de034c661618e5baa3
> .  As far as I know, live TV in 0.26 now behaves as well (or badly) as
> 0.25.
>
> Jim
>

Thanks, I wasn't aware of that bug. My system uses a single PVR-500
recording from one RF-connected DTA and one composite-connected STB, so
it's SD-only. Are there any frontend debugging options that might help
identify this?

Thanks,

Karl
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