How should ffwd/rew work?

[andydesheffield]

Hello Everyone,
this is my first posting after moving to GB-PVR from Mythtv (Which I'd actually got sort of working but too many crashes)

I'm using a Pundit-r, and I gave up on Myth when ffwd and rev stopped working on my PVR350 out (after an upgrade), and I'd spent too may hours trying to get the alternative ATI tv out to work under Linux.
One thing that Myth did rather well (when it worked) was the variable ffwd/rev function (very high WAF)

Now I've moved (setting up GB-PVR was as a Sunday afternoon stroll is to a hike up Everest compared to setting up Mythtv), I'm having problems with the ffwd/rev functions

First of all I'm NOT using the PVR-350 out but the ATI integrated card
I've unchecked the ffwd = skip checkbox in setup
All the stuff below refers to recordings, not live tv.

When I press ffwd on the Hauppage remote it moves forwards at about the same speed as normal play. When I press reverse it does nothing unless I hold it down, when I get the odd frame going backwards.

Problem is: Having never used GBPVR before I'm not even sure how it is supposed to work.
I'm assuming that the ffwd and rev keys are sticky, and that I should be seeing a picture moving forwards or backwards at about 3x Normal speed until I press play?

I'm assuming that there is only 1 speed each way and to go faster I would use skip?
Skip seems to work fine apart from that
I thought that pressing "30 >|" on the remote should skip me forwards 30 mins but this doesn't seem to happen?

Could my problems be related to the codec that I'm using (Intervideo for Hauppage) ?
Thanks for any help. This is a great piece of software and I'll be clicking on the Paypal link as soon as I've got everything set up and working

Pundit-R
2.4GH Celeron D
512MB
Integrated ATI Graphics with TV out
XP Pro
PVR350 (only as input)
Intervideo Hauppage Codec
External control of Sky Digibox through Winlirc and Pacelink device

[stefan]

Most people haven't gotten ff/rew to work. This is one of the difficult things to get to work with gbpvr. Most people have set it to use short skip instead. I think it depends on which codec you use. With other codecs, you might get it to work better.

[stefan]

*smile*

[andydesheffield]

Thanks for the replies
I'll experiment with codecs a bit.
Otherwise not sure my wife would get used to the short skip but I'll try.
I presume this is technically possible as Mythtv and Mediportal (from their doc) can do it. Just no interest?

[stefan]

Just no interest?

At least very low prio

[ricklous]

I thought that pressing "30 >|" on the remote should skip me forwards 30 mins but this doesn't seem to happen?

Im having this problem too, although only noticed it yesterday since upgrading last week.

numpad + skip just skips normal amount, ignoring the number ive tapped in
but
numpad + ok changes channel just fine

via the keyboard, these both work fine.

My remote setup is a bit of a mash-up and this is probably related to that, but it did work in the old version.

Sub, if you're listening, has anything changed in this area that might have stopped this working in the new version?

[stefan]

I'm positive I used this yesterday, and it worked. Pressed 20 and skip, and it skipped 20 minutes. Sure you haven't accidentally set skip base to seconds instead of minutes?

[ricklous]

Ive just got it working....

I have HIP set to display its OSD when i press any of the media control buttons, and switching this off on the skip buttons has got the manual skip working again. Maybe displaying the OSD before performing the action 'breaks' the string of keypresses going to GBPVR or something like that. The old version coped and the new one doesnt. Dont know weather this is worth classing as a bug or just 'the price of progress' lol

[sub]

Thanks for the replies
I'll experiment with codecs a bit.
Otherwise not sure my wife would get used to the short skip but I'll try.
I presume this is technically possible as Mythtv and Mediportal (from their doc) can do it. Just no interest?

Some of the third party directshow components I rely on dont support it, so not something I can easily solve. FFWD works in most situations (albeit crappy 2x), but not REW. I just recommend people stick with short skip instead.

[canonbeck]

I've been using ffwd and rew for a while now after an upgrade turned off the short-skip override. I like it, the only trouble is that sometimes after I have used ffwd and I then want to short skip forward by x mins, it seems to put me back to the begining of the recording and skip the x minutes forward from there ?!? Thats one has had the wife annoyed with me ("and my bloody computers") a couple of times now...