[mythtv-users] ff/rew problems with Internal player on Videos

[Kevin Kuphal]

jondz wrote:

>On Wed, 2005-03-23 at 09:16, Joseph A. Caputo wrote:
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>>On Tuesday 22 March 2005 10:32, Donavan Stanley wrote:
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>>>On 21 Mar 2005 23:04:50 -0500, jondz <jondz at dca.net> wrote:
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>>>>(Internal player).  I put "internal" on the video
>>>>player (instead of mplayer).
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>>>>FF/REW/Page up/down wont work with playing videos,
>>>>the ff/rew are mostly too slow.   Page up/down
>>>>will delay for too long (10,30 seconds) then
>>>>mostly wont work anyway (might move forward only
>>>>a few frames or just jump backward).
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>>>You need to build a seek table for them using mythcommflag.
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>>I was actually going to post about this... I've tried everything I can 
>>to get seeking to work in my movie rips, to no avail.  I saw a post 
>>recently that mentioned it's necessary to run 'mythcommflag --video' 
>>with the *full* path of the video file (rather than the path relative 
>>to the video dir).  I've tried both ways, and while the results were 
>>different, neither was a success.  I've verified that the movies have 
>>seektables in the 'filemarkup' table.  At best, what seems to be 
>>happening is that the video seeks properly, but the audio doesn't, so 
>>the video freezes until the audio catches up.  I'm not sure if that's 
>>actually what's happening, but that's the appearance it gives.  I 
>>should mention that most of my movies are XviD AVIs (most produced by 
>>MythDVD, some by DVD::Rip), as I seem to recall that AVI seeking was 
>>less mature than some other kinds.
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>>I'd be happy to do anything necessary to help debug this.
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>>-JAC
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>I have exactly the same problem!
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>Last nite I did a few tests with mythcommflag --rebuild ---video
>/path/to/movie and the Page up/down worked---but the audio were
>thrown out of sync.
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>In my case the video didnt freeze but the audio was just way
>out of sync (about 2 seconds late or early i'm not sure).
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I see the same thing.  The mythcommflag helps in getting the duration 
right and the skipping or ff/rw working better but the audio always 
loses sync.

Kevin