2009-05-02, 05:38
I'm experiencing this issue on all 3 of my linux boxes (Ubuntu 8.10):
At some point during large MPG videos, usually about 1/2 way through, skip stops working (long or short skip).
I can reproduce it by starting a video, pressing long skip over and over and usually near the 50% mark, I keep pressing long skip, but it only skips forward about 0.5 seconds.
The interesting thing is that I don't get this problem on more compressed xvid's which take up less space but are the same length.
For example:
4 GB / 120 minutes / MPEG2 --- Problem exists, skipping stops working midway through
1 GB / 120 minutes / MPEG4/xvid -- No problem!
I thought it may be a caching thing, but that doesn't make sense, because I'll skip halfway through a 4 GB mpg then it just stops -- there's no way it cached the first 2 GB.
I also tried upgrading to SVN on one of my boxes and the problem still persists.
I've also tried playing local files to make sure it isn't a network issue, but the problem is there too.
Has anyone else seen this?
At some point during large MPG videos, usually about 1/2 way through, skip stops working (long or short skip).
I can reproduce it by starting a video, pressing long skip over and over and usually near the 50% mark, I keep pressing long skip, but it only skips forward about 0.5 seconds.
The interesting thing is that I don't get this problem on more compressed xvid's which take up less space but are the same length.
For example:
4 GB / 120 minutes / MPEG2 --- Problem exists, skipping stops working midway through
1 GB / 120 minutes / MPEG4/xvid -- No problem!
I thought it may be a caching thing, but that doesn't make sense, because I'll skip halfway through a 4 GB mpg then it just stops -- there's no way it cached the first 2 GB.
I also tried upgrading to SVN on one of my boxes and the problem still persists.
I've also tried playing local files to make sure it isn't a network issue, but the problem is there too.
Has anyone else seen this?