Skip / fast forward not working - random intervals and direction

[aseibert]

When playing back a recording, the skip and fast forward functions are not working correctly. I have them set to the default intervals. If I skip forward (or back) it jumps at seemingly random intervals. It will even go in the wrong direction. I've tried to discern a pattern but I can't find one. It never seems to do the same thing twice. I've had to resort to using a mouse to select a spot on the timeline.

I'm running Windows 7 Ultimate 64 bit and NextPVR 2.2.6. My hardware is a Gigabyte 880GA-UD3H motherboard/AMD Athlon II X3 450 Rana 3.2GHz triple-core processor with onboard ATI HD4250 video and a Hauppauge Colossus capture card. I have all the latest drivers. The TV is a 46" Samsung UN46D6000SF 1080p 120Hz LED LCD using an HDMI input.

[am2pgs]

yep. It has a mind of its own.
That is my no.1 gripe at the moment. Rather a basic function really for a PVR.

[johnsonx42]

post logs

[BrettB]

At least some of your symptoms sound like you don't have timing.info files. Are the recordings stored on an NTFS drive?

[am2pgs]

Forgive me for my ignorance, but what is a timing.info file. Where are we supposed to have it?

Yes the recordings are on an NTFS drive in my case. is that a problem? I was actually thinking of creating a seperate partition just for the recordings to see if that helps.

[sub]

Try skipping around in one of these files, then post your npvr.log and I'll take a look.

[aseibert]

Here are the logs, complete with some backwards fast forwarding. All the skipping I did for this example was in the forward direction. I did go forward once by clicking on the timeline.

[sub]

Can you zip and attach the timing.info for this same file?

ie notepad "F:\nPVR\Recording\Americas Got Talent\Americas Got Talent_20110831_21002200.ts:timing.info"

[aseibert]

Well, this may be the problem, I don't see a file like that. I only see the .ts file. What would keep it from being created? Could it be somewhere else?

[sub]

Timing.info is an "Alternate Data Stream" (ADS) file. ie, kind of related fine stored within the .ts.

That command line I gave above should show it. "Americas Got Talent_20110831_21002200.ts" is the main file "Americas Got Talent_20110831_21002200.ts:timing.info" is the emedded ADS. Notice the colon in the name. That tells Windows to use the ADS file. If you run the following command, then you should see it.

Code:

notepad "F:\nPVR\Recording\Americas Got Talent\Americas Got Talent_20110831_21002200.ts:timing.info"

This assumes you're running on an NTFS drive though. FAT32 does not support ADS.