[mythtv-users] mythcommflag kills audio?

[Michael T. Dean]

On 04/30/2006 06:14 PM, Mike Parkins wrote:

>I had a dodgy recording which didn't seem to have a seektable so I ran 
>mythcommflag --rebuild on it but the resulting file now has no sound and the 
>seektable is weird (3 hours long instead of 1 hour!). When played, 
>mythfrontend complains about "audio codec in use, so leaving it alone" and 
>seeking works but the timings are wrong. Other recordings still work fine.
>
>I just tried mplayer and the sound worked ok so here is mplayers take on it...
>

Right.  The mythcommflag program only reads the recording--it doesn't 
write any information to the recording file.  Therefore, your recording 
is as good as it was before you ran mythcommflag.  My suggestion is to 
re-run mythcommflag, but this time as:

mythcommflag --force --rebuild -f 
/mnt/mythfiles/1007_20050912015900_20050912025500.nuv

HTH.

Mike