[mythtv-users] MPEG-2 seektable problems

[Jared Valentine]

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This morning I noticed some MPEG-2 recordings (all the ones I tried - so
presumably all) were having problems with seeking - when I pressed the right
arrow key to skip 5 seconds it moved by a couple of minutes, after pressing
the key about 5 times, the position marker moved to the end of the program
length and wouldn't let me skip any more. I know this is to do with a
corrupted seek table, so I ran optimize_mythdb.pl and my recordings now work
fine except for the two programmes I recorded last night which wouldn't play
at all. 

So I tried rebuilding the seektable for those recordings using the command:
mythcommflag --rebuild -f filename.mpg

but the 57 minute program has now been detected as being 4 hours 27 minutes
long, and using the arrow keys to navigate round the file produces the same
problems as described above. 
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I had a similar problem running Knoppmyth (0.19).  While repairing the sql
databases helped, the two shows that were recorded during the corruption
never got their total length fixed, even after numerous cycles with
mythcommflag --rebuild.  I finally got sick of it and just
recorded/rescheduled those recordings to be repaired.

Jared Valentine
hidden at xmission.com