Video & Audio Sync issues?
 

Hello Everyone,

I have been noticing lately that my Reply seems to nock my Video and Audio
out of sync, the video is about 6 seconds behind. I assure you that my
cables are wires are hooked up correctly and I am outputting from the replay
for audio and video.

I found this happening this evening on the WB's Summerland and often happens
on some of the Fox network prime time shows.

Any ideas or fixes to this problem?

Thanks,
Chris

In addition I am running a ReplayTV 5040 with the IVS and Commercial Skip.

Thanks,
Chris

"Chris H" wrote in message
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Hello Everyone,

I have been noticing lately that my Reply seems to nock my Video and Audio
out of sync, the video is about 6 seconds behind. I assure you that my
cables are wires are hooked up correctly and I am outputting from the
replay
for audio and video.

I found this happening this evening on the WB's Summerland and often
happens
on some of the Fox network prime time shows.

Any ideas or fixes to this problem?

Thanks,
Chris

"Chris H" wrote in message
.. .
Hello Everyone,

I have been noticing lately that my Reply seems to nock my Video and Audio
out of sync, the video is about 6 seconds behind. I assure you that my
cables are wires are hooked up correctly and I am outputting from the
replay
for audio and video.

I found this happening this evening on the WB's Summerland and often
happens
on some of the Fox network prime time shows.

Any ideas or fixes to this problem?

Thanks,
Chris




In case you haven't noticed this is a Tivo group.. You may want to try
alt.video.ptv.replaytv

In any event, if you had a Tivo you wouldn't be having this problem! ;)

Hey,

LoL... I have a Tivo as well.
I am signed up to both groups and didn't realize I was posting in the TiVo
one :-)

Thanks,
Chris

P.S. Your Correct, Tivo has never had that problem.

"maharg18" wrote in message
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"Chris H" wrote in message
.. .
Hello Everyone,

I have been noticing lately that my Reply seems to nock my Video and
Audio
out of sync, the video is about 6 seconds behind. I assure you that my
cables are wires are hooked up correctly and I am outputting from the
replay
for audio and video.

I found this happening this evening on the WB's Summerland and often
happens
on some of the Fox network prime time shows.

Any ideas or fixes to this problem?

Thanks,
Chris




In case you haven't noticed this is a Tivo group.. You may want to try
alt.video.ptv.replaytv

In any event, if you had a Tivo you wouldn't be having this problem! ;)

On Wed, 23 Jun 2004 01:27:56 +0000, Chris H wrote:

I have been noticing lately that my Reply seems to nock my Video and Audio

You clarified in a followup that you meant "Replay" as in "ReplayTV", so
I'd point you to alt.video.ptv.replaytv...

--
Lenroc

"maharg18" wrote in message
...
"Chris H" wrote in message
.. .
I have been noticing lately that my Reply seems to nock my Video and
Audio
out of sync, the video is about 6 seconds behind. I assure you that my

In any event, if you had a Tivo you wouldn't be having this problem! ;)


Bull****. My DirecTV Tivo does this all the time and I have to go back and
forth a couple of times on replay for it to correct itself.
I like my Tivo, but it's not perfect. Among the things I find irritating:
1) Re-sorts on seasons passes take forever and basically hang the system
until it's finished. Linux is suppose to be multitasking, why can't it do
this type of housekeeping in background.
2) It screwed up my Nip/Tuck seasons pass. Just suddenly stopped working.
Knowing the season's premier was last night I did a name search and added a
season's pass. This somehow forced a refresh on the original seasons pass so
now it showed two copies to be recorded in the to do list. I deleted both of
them and went back and added back just one it cleared up, but the whole
process took about 20 minutes to correct. (see complaint #1). Is it
necessary to periodically delete and add back season's passes?
3) When I am surfing channels on tuner #2 with a show buffering on tuner #1
(so I can go back and commercial skip), if I cross the channel that is on
tuner #1 the Tivo switches me to that tuner and kills the buffered stream
when I next press the channel button. If I am watching on tuner #2 it should
stay on that tuner and not disturb what is going on with the first tuner.
4) There should be a way to roll between the tuners and a playback stream so
I can pause a movie playback to watch the evening news, and then simply go
back to the movie without having to go into list, page to the movie, select,
play, resume playing. What I would envision would be like the live TV
button: Tuner 1| Tuner 2| Current playback Stream | Tuner 1.... This would
be a good use for that window button on the remote.
5) Pay Per Views in the Suggestion list appears to be a marketing ploy,
because the movies it suggests are not the type I usually watch.
6) There does not appear to be a way of eliminating channels. I would like
to eliminate all the home shopping channels, Spanish language channels, and
similar channels that I have no interest in, along with channels that I just
don't receive (HBO). When changing channels, I currently have to go through
a lot of dead pages, and channels that I have no interest in.
7) Networking for DirecTV Tivo. Enough said.

Jeff

Jeff Lowe wrote:

Bull****. My DirecTV Tivo does this all the time and I have to go back and
forth a couple of times on replay for it to correct itself.
O
I wouldn't say "all the time", but I have seen it. Two hits on the pause
button fixes it.

2) It screwed up my Nip/Tuck seasons pass. Just suddenly stopped working.
Knowing the season's premier was last night I did a name search and added a
season's pass. This somehow forced a refresh on the original seasons pass so
now it showed two copies to be recorded in the to do list. I deleted both of

When "West Wing" had some naming difficulties, didn't show the one they
said they were going to show (But Tivo thought they did) and then showed
the right one the following week (which Tivo thought had just been
recorded), I did some juggling, and I actually did get two shows taped
simultaneously on the two tuners.

4) There should be a way to roll between the tuners and a playback stream so

I like that one. It ties into my major gripe: If I get the popup that
says Tivo has to change the channel, I have to cancel an upcoming
recording, or let it change the channel. It should let me know what is
blocking the other tuner from changing.

6) There does not appear to be a way of eliminating channels. I would like
That one is there. I have to clean it up occasionally as they add more
NFL, or MSL, or ESPN, etc, but my list is only the channels I want.
Messages and Setup - My Preferences - Customize Channels - Channels You
Receive.

7) Networking for DirecTV Tivo. Enough said.

I don't know what I'd do with it, but I'd like to have it.

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Clarence A Dold - Hidden Valley (Lake County) CA USA 38.8-122.5

"Jeff Lowe" wrote in message ...
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4) There should be a way to roll between the tuners and a playback stream so
I can pause a movie playback to watch the evening news, and then simply go
back to the movie without having to go into list, page to the movie, select,
play, resume playing. What I would envision would be like the live TV
button: Tuner 1| Tuner 2| Current playback Stream | Tuner 1.... This would
be a good use for that window button on the remote.
5) Pay Per Views in the Suggestion list appears to be a marketing ploy,
because the movies it suggests are not the type I usually watch.
6) There does not appear to be a way of eliminating channels. I would like
to eliminate all the home shopping channels, Spanish language channels, and
similar channels that I have no interest in, along with channels that I just
don't receive (HBO). When changing channels, I currently have to go through
a lot of dead pages, and channels that I have no interest in.

....

You need to keep aware of which channels are being saved in each buffer
while maintaining buffers for both. You can "surf" in the program guide
and avoid changing channels with the channel Up/Dn button.

4) Press LiveTV to leave playback of a saved program... Press gray pad left arrow
to go back to Now Playing list, and press Play. One key press to Live TV, then two key
presses to resume viewing a saved program.

5) I have never seen a PPV in Suggestions because I unselected all PPV channels
in the Channels You Receive list. Suggestions are picked from this set.

6) Unselect the channels you never watch in Channels You Receive.

Messages & Setup - My Preferences - Customize Channels
(Uncheck all channels, then select each individually as there
are probably fewer you want than those you don't want)

After picking the channels you want to view in Channels You Receive,
Check All channels in Favorites and choose Favorites on the Program Guide
configuration menu. If you do this you won't see new channels which
are automatically added to Channels You Receive. The shopping channels
that are newly added on a daily basis will not appear in Favorites.

* Jeff Lowe Wrote in alt.video.ptv.tivo:

[...]

4) There should be a way to roll between the tuners and a playback
stream so I can pause a movie playback to watch the evening news,
and then simply go back to the movie without having to go into
list, page to the movie, select, play, resume playing. What I
would envision would be like the live TV button: Tuner 1| Tuner 2|
Current playback Stream | Tuner 1.... This would be a good use for
that window button on the remote.

When your watching Live TV hit the disc to the left, it will bring you
right to the NPL with the cursor right on the movie you were watching,
now press play. 2 button presses instead of 1 but it works.

[...]

6) There does not
appear to be a way of eliminating channels. I would like to
eliminate all the home shopping channels, Spanish language
channels, and similar channels that I have no interest in, along
with channels that I just don't receive (HBO). When changing
channels, I currently have to go through a lot of dead pages, and
channels that I have no interest in.

When you are in the guide press INFO and change to favorites, favorites
can be configured in the menus, I dont see any channels I dont
have/want.

I have DirecTivo.

--
David

My DirecTV Tivo does this all the time and I have to go back and
forth a couple of times on replay for it to correct itself.

I find the audio starts to "stutter" now and then (not often). Pressing pause
and then resuming immediately re-syncs it. I've never had to go "back and
forth".

1) Re-sorts on seasons passes take forever and basically hang the system
until it's finished. Linux is suppose to be multitasking, why can't it do
this type of housekeeping in background.

It's potentially a lot of data it has to sift through. But I'm with you, it'd
be nice if this weren't soooooo damned slow.

2) It screwed up my Nip/Tuck seasons pass. Just suddenly stopped working.

How much of this is Fox's fault for screwing around with their listing in the
guide?

Is it necessary to periodically delete and add back season's passes?

None that I've used required this. But then again, I'm not watching programs on
networks that insist on ****ing around with the info. NBC's jerking around with
the start/stop times, Fox with the station label, etc.

3) When I am surfing channels on tuner #2 with a show buffering on tuner #1
(so I can go back and commercial skip), if I cross the channel that is on
tuner #1 the Tivo switches me to that tuner and kills the buffered stream
when I next press the channel button. If I am watching on tuner #2 it should
stay on that tuner and not disturb what is going on with the first tuner.

Yes, I've seen this as well. But consider that it's going to be sort of
difficult for the Tivo to untangle what you're trying to do. It won't let you
record the same channel on both tuners. And unless you tell it to record a
program it can't "know" that you really want it to keep the buffer. If you want
something recorded, press the Record button; that's why it's there. Otherwise
some sort of "smarter" buffers would be a nice thing.

4) There should be a way to roll between the tuners and a playback stream so
I can pause a movie playback to watch the evening news, and then simply go
back to the movie without having to go into list, page to the movie, select,
play, resume playing.

I'll second that request. There's not a 'one key' way to do this (at least not
on a DirecTivo).

5) Pay Per Views in the Suggestion list appears to be a marketing ploy,
because the movies it suggests are not the type I usually watch.

Well, yeah, duh! It's all about advertising and they're making the pitch! The
suggestions get dumped should space be needed. Otherwise you're free to ignore
them or turn off recording them completely. But imagine how much the paranoia
freaks would whine if the Tivo really got smart enough to do what you're asking.
Especially if it knew you tended to pause, rewind, slow-mo advance when a pair
of titties come across the screen. It'd merrily start making Suggestions of
more suggestive stuff (yeah, ow, bad pun).

6) There does not appear to be a way of eliminating channels. I would like
to eliminate all the home shopping channels, Spanish language channels, and
similar channels that I have no interest in, along with channels that I just
don't receive (HBO). When changing channels, I currently have to go through
a lot of dead pages, and channels that I have no interest in.

This you CAN do. Hit the Info button and change it to show only "Channels you
receive" and then take out the ones you don't want though the setup screens
(forget which ones). But beware, some channels "come and go" and will
mysteriously reappear. I find this incredibly annoying. When I delete a given
channel I damn well want it to STAY deleted. Not keep coming back up when the
take it out of the guide for a day and return it. I realize this would make it
harder for me to discover legitimately new channels. Send me a text message
with a list of them and perhaps ask if I want them added. STOP forcing them on
me.

7) Networking for DirecTV Tivo. Enough said.

Version 4.0 and HMO.... WHEN will we get them on DirecTivo units! We've waited
LONG ENOUGH.

-Bill Kearney