[mythtv] Total time for videos in "Internal" player

[Steele Price]

The "logical" response would be... it detects the bitrate embedded in 
the recording then divides that into the filelength, but I am only 
guessing in myth's case. That is how I do all of my length calculations, 
but it's up to the detection capabilities of the codec, some variable 
bitrates are a really pain to get an average on.  It is highly possible 
that you have different versions of the codecs on the 2 different 
machines, or your filesystem is reporting the filesize incorrectly.

I'm sure a quick grep of the code would tell you exactly how it's being 
done.

Steele Price
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Torsten Schenkel wrote:

>Hi,
>
>how does the internal player calculate the total time of videos? Mythtv
>takes it from the recordedmarkup table IIRC. For videos it doesn't have
>this information.
>
>On my main mythbox I noticed a while back (using mythtv %s as player
>command), that the total time for a 45min show was shown as some 381
>hours. I took this as normal, since the information from the database is
>missing. The "Internal" player command shows the same behaviour which is
>not surprising since it seems to be a hook to mythtv.
>
>But, after upgrading from WLAN to 100T I installed a frontend on my
>workstation. And this frontend shows a different total time. While at
>the beginning the time will be of (2,5 hours for a 45 minute show) but
>after some minutes it settles at the correct total. 
>
>So there is someway the Internal player gets the total time from the
>file, like other players (mplayer, xine) do, it simple takes longer with
>"Internal"; but my mythbox can't do it. I guess it's a difference
>between the way the player handles this for software decoding
>(workstation, correct time) and the pvr350's decoder (mythbox, wrong
>time). 
>
>Any ideas were to look for this? It's not top priority since I don't
>care, I know how long my films are, but it would be nice to have,
>especially when there's windows folk visiting :-)
>
>Torsten
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