Skipping works perfectly.. I'm talking about the true fast forward (double/triple etc forward and reverse)
> From: David <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Reply-To: Discussion about mythtv <[email protected]> > Date: Wed, 07 Sep 2005 22:46:11 +0100 > To: Discussion about mythtv <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] WAF Emergency - FFwd not working smoothly, > Commercial skip being a LITTLE flakey. > > Odd. > > On my system a copy and a symlink have the same behaviour. > I obviously saw the same archive entry and I didn't believe it (!) so I > tried both a symlink and copy and made sure to restart Myth etc etc. > > Maybe permissions? > What distro? I'm on Debian testing. > > David > PS, by fwd/rew, do you mean the 5/30 second skip? or do you mean double > speed/reverse speed playback? > I mean the 5/30 skipping. > > matt lutz wrote: > >> >> David, >> >> Actually - if I just copy the file there, I get the weird ffwd/rew >> problem that was mentioned at the start of this thread. If I convert >> it to a symbolic link, it fixes the issue (at least for me). It >> doesn't even matter that the checksums of the files were exactly the >> same... >> >> Matt >> >> >> On 9/7/05, *David* <[EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> wrote: >> >> The localtime file is indeed essential to the correct functioning >> of Myth. >> >> However I'm pretty sure it doesn't need to be a link/symlink - >> this is a >> myth (with a small m) :) >> >> (try it - I did) >> >> David >> >> matt lutz wrote: >> >>> Michael, >>> >>> I experienced the exact same ffwd/rwd problem for a while... I came >>> upon a fix in the archives that was pretty peculiar, but it does >>> work. Check to see if your /etc/localtime file is a link or an >> actual >>> file. If it's a file, then delete it, link it with the proper >> file in >>> /usr/share/zoneinfo directory. Use the following commands: >>> >>> rm /etc/localtime >>> ln -s /usr/share/zoneinfo/EST5EDT /etc/localtime >>> >>> obviously substitute the "EST5EDT" with whatever timezone you are >>> actually in. I haven't been able to find why this works, but it >>> definately does for me. >>> >>> As for the commercial skip... I have also noticed some >> incosistencies >>> in what is a commercial and what is actual programming as well, >> and do >>> not enable skipping anymore. >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> On 8/30/05, *Michael Jones* <[EMAIL PROTECTED] >> <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>> <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >> <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>>> wrote: >>> >>> I'm trying to solve a couple problems to increase the WAF of my >>> system. >>> >>> So far the system is working VERY well. WAF is pretty high, but >>> she's >>> complaining about a couple items. >>> >>> 1) When fast forwarding through a recorded program you can hit >>> the button >>> once and sometimes twice and get relatively smooth >> playback... Any >>> more than >>> that and things pause or glitch in some way.. And then playback >>> pauses and >>> sometimes even goes back to where you started Ffwding. >>> >>> 2) When coming to the end of a program the system will >> often skip >>> the last >>> couple of minutes after the last commercial break. >>> >>> Any ideas on these? >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> mythtv-users mailing list >>> [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> >> <mailto:[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> >>> http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users >>> >>> >>> >>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> mythtv-users mailing list >>> [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> >>> http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users >> <http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users> >>> >>> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> mythtv-users mailing list >> [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> >> http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users >> >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> >> _______________________________________________ >> mythtv-users mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users >> >> > > _______________________________________________ > mythtv-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users >
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