Pausing and fast rewinding and advancing live TV

[beermanmc]

I am having a problem when I am watching live TV and pause it, if I later try to fast forward to skip commercials and try to get caught up it won't let me play it after its been advanced. When I hit the pause button it doesn't start playing instead it maked the fast forward faster. In order to get it to play I have to exit out and restart live TV from the menu. Any idea on how to fix this?

[stefan]

Fast forward don't work well with most decoders. Install another decoder that works, or use skip instead of fast forward.

[capone]

If you're saying after pause it plays like you have FF on, I get that, too. It's the Intervideo decoder that causes it for me. I think I found the way out last night. I hit play, it started to FF, I hit pause, and I hit play again. It jumped back to the pause point and played normally.

[beermanmc]

Actually where I am having a problem is if I pause a live show to go do something, when I comeback and it play it plays fine. But when it comes to some commericals and I want to fast forward past them it fast forwards fine but once I hit the area where the show starts again, I can't get it to play. It will only fast forward. If this is a decoder problem, which decoder works best? I have the Nvidia Decoder, cyberlink, nero and mainconcepts. Is there any one which is better to use?

[capone]

Ah...I use skip instead of FF (but I incorrectly identify skip fwd as FF).

I never had much luck w/ FF, so I used two different skip increments instead (15 and 30 sec I think). Not as precise, but more reliable on the whole.