[mythtv-users] seek problems in mythvideo, internal player

[Dan Christensen]

Dan Christensen <jdc at uwo.ca> writes:

> I've got some video captured from videotape using my PVR-350.  
> I've put the MPEG-2 file in my mythvideo directory and have run
> "mythcommflag --video test.mpg" on it.  I verified that the 
> filemarkup table has several thousand entries of the form
>
>   test.mpg  	2199  	715401254  	6
>
> However, when I play the video using the Internal player and using the
> PVR-350's TV out, it is slow to seek (about 11 seconds for a 5 minute
> jump forwards).
>
> I've attached the entire output from "mythtv test.mpg" below.  But
> the relevant parts are probably
>
> 2005-03-05 23:45:43.102 keyframedist changed to 15
> 2005-03-05 23:45:43.929 DoFastForward: Not enough info in positionMap, we need frame 8999 but highest we have is 75
> 2005-03-05 23:45:43.930 SyncPositionMap prerecorded, from DB: 4 entries
> 2005-03-05 23:45:43.930 DoFastForward: Still Not enough info in positionMap, we need frame 8999 but highest we have is 75.  Will seek frame-by-frame
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I should have mentioned more about my setup:

Myth 0.17, mdz's Debian packages
ivtv 0.2.0-rc3d
kernel 2.6.10

Dan