On Tue, 8 Jul 2008, Tom Metro wrote: >> I couldn't resume the show at the last position - this applied both to new >> shows >> and shows that I already watched partly on other Myth frontends. > > Are you referring to the MythTV front-end feature where you can stop > watching a show part way through, return to the show listings or even > exit the front-end, and some time layer play that same show again, and > it will resume from where you left off? > > If so, mvpmc doesn't automatically support that feature. (Even the real > MythTV front-end only does that automatically if so configured.) > Currently you need to manually bookmark your position by pressing the > yellow button on the remote, and waiting for an on-screen acknowledgment > before stopping/exiting the video playback. Then to resume you start > playback and press the blue button on the remote. (However there is a > bug that causes the resume point to be wrong. I'm not sure if the fix > for this made it into the nightlies yet.) The bookmark feature is > documented on the wiki. It does depend on a direct database connection.
This has not been fixed yet, mostly because I was waiting for Michael Drons to point to where in the code he's hard-coded a (NTSC) frame rate so that I could remove that in the same patch. > I'd like to see us add an option for automatic saving of position, but > the feature needs to be debugged a bit more, and it needs to be made > faster. On my system there is a delay of tens of seconds from the button > press to the OSD acknowledgment. There a lot of latency in something... I can honestly say I haven't used the feature, but it is probably in need of some rather hefty re-writing by the sounds of it. Cheers, Simon ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sponsored by: SourceForge.net Community Choice Awards: VOTE NOW! Studies have shown that voting for your favorite open source project, along with a healthy diet, reduces your potential for chronic lameness and boredom. Vote Now at http://www.sourceforge.net/community/cca08 _______________________________________________ Mvpmc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/mvpmc-users mvpmc wiki: http://mvpmc.wikispaces.com/
