[mythtv] [mythtv-commits] Ticket #799: DTV recordings sometimes show doubled recording length

Daniel Kristjansson danielk at cuymedia.net
Wed Oct 3 13:29:51 UTC 2007


On Wed, 2007-10-03 at 08:17 -0500, Robert Kulagowski wrote:
> Maybe I'm not following along, but why try to calculate the recording 
> length based on total frames / frame rate when we _know_ what time we 
> started recording and what time we ended?  time(now) - time(start) = length?

The reported length is just a side effect. We skip around the recording
based on the keyframe map, so unless we know the frame rate those
keyframes are delivered at we can't say skip backwards by 30 seconds
when the user asks us to. But it might make sense to record a timestamp
in the keyframe map and then we could always skip based on time no
matter what the current framerate. The only problem with that is that
it might be space inefficient. When the framerate changes it really
only changes one or two dozen times during a recording so putting a
timestamp in every keyframe entry, while the simplest option, would
probably make the DB 30% larger in one fell swoop.

There are also other problems that this ticket covers, such as when
we miscount frames simply because our frame scanning method for MPEG-2
video is quite crude.

-- Daniel




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