Timeshifting difficulties, design or not? (2 Viewers)

[ncrukrepairs]

MediaPortal Version: 0.2.0.3. rc1
MediaPortal Skin: blue two
Windows Version: xp pro sp2
CPU Type: 1.8ghz centrino
HDD: 100gb 7200rpm scsi
Memory: 512mb ddr
Video Card: Radeon 9600 128mb
1. TV Card: Hauppauge wintv stick dvb
1. TV Card Type: dvb-t
2. TV Card: MSi Mega sky 520
2. TV Card Type: dvb -t
MPEG2 Video Codec: mpv video codec
MPEG2 Audio Codec: mpa audo condec
Satelite/CableTV Provider: n/a
HTPC Case: n/a
Cooling: a fan ))
Power Supply: 500watt
Remote: media pc remote
TV: sanyo plc xu 55 projector
TV - HTPC Connection: vga





First of all id like to say how far the media portal tv server has come and how great media portal is, i couldnt live life without it!

On to the problem.

After a week of fiddling etc i have finnaly got the tv server and client set up correctly! and i have noticed this:

in tve2 when one is watching timeshifting tv and one rewinds or fast fowards one gets a live preview of what is being rewound . e.g. the video either playing backwards or forwards quicker than 1x

In tve3 when one is watching timeshifted tv and one rewinds or fastforwads one does not get a live preview instead one gets the timestamp at the top either moving backwards or fowards e.g. 5.00 - 4.50 - 4-40 and the image is frozen, then when one pushes play the image jumps to the rewound or fastforwarded point

Is this a design feature of tve3 or is it something incorrect with my configuration.

I really hope its fixable as its quite hard to judge when the advertisments have finised and the program has started again as i cannot see a "live preview" of the video being rewound or fast fowarded.

Thanks for everybodys help in advance

Regards
Alexander Foti

 

[ncrukrepairs]

btw im also running the latest svn on client, server and plugin

 

[ncrukrepairs]

bump

 

[SciDoctor]

TVe2 used DVR-MS and has no real problems with ffwd/rwd but only contains video/audio.

TVe3 uses .TS (contains all broadcast information) and unfortunately has ensuing problems with ffwd/rwd depending also on codecs.

Not realy a design flaw but a limitation at the moment.

There is nothing wrong with your instal in this respect, you could try different codecs to see if improvements can be found.

I don't use ffwd/rwd and prefer the jump skips through files, much quicker.

 

[ncrukrepairs]

ahh okay.

thats what I thought.

on another note with timeshifting. the jumpskipping does not work sometimes untill I rewind or fast forward. For example . I will be watching a program and then i will want to go back 30 seconds. So i push back but all i get come up is "end" then i pause it or rewind it then try again and i get 30 secs 10 secs etc.

Any ideas?

 

[SciDoctor]

Haven't seen this with pure timeshifting on local or network clients. BUT

If this is a network client and you are playing back a schedule while it is recording then the bug is known and is in mantis.

If not, start a new bug report describing simple steps to reproduce and include clean fresh logs.

 

[ncrukrepairs]

This issue seems to still be here in the latest rc4. Any ideas on when I will be able to rewind/fast foward effectively?