[mythtv-users] Puzzled by seektables.

[Davide Chiarini]

Hi Michael,

first of all, thanks for your explanations.
It took me a long time to try and follow them as myth is now well
integrated in my family and I could not afford (well, my wife
couldn't) to break the running installation...
I've tried to fix this problem in many ways, but I'm still stuck.

2006/10/28, Michael T. Dean <mtdean at thirdcontact.com>:
> Which makes me think that the mythcommflag you're running from the
> command line is a 0.19 one...  Check carefully for multiple
> "mythcommflag" programs on your system.  Perhaps you have a packaged
> version in /usr and a compiled-yourself version in /usr/local?

I've tried uninstalling everything (from packages), looking for
everything myth, deleting it, and reinstalling. Same problem.
Then I uninstalled everything and compiled myth myself, and the
problem was still there.
By the way, I've tried running the mythcommflag I compiled before
installing it, when I still had the packaged version installed, and it
doesn't run if mythlib is not the exact same version it was compiled
with. So I think a 0.19 mythcommflag would not run on a 0.20
installation.

> Once you fix the install (perhaps uninstalling everything Myth (but not
> MySQL or the database) would be a good start), you might want to do a:
>
> TRUNCATE TABLE recordedmarkup;
> (otherwise, you'll have orphaned seektable information in this table
> probably forever)
>
> then, optionally:
> TRUNCATE TABLE recordedseek;
> mythcommflag --rebuild --all
>
> then:
> mythcommflag --all

I've tried this at every reinstall, but I always got the 'no seektable' message.
Then I tried this as well, to exclude database problems:
I followed the docs on moving myth to new hardware (backing up only
the tables record, recorded, oldrecorded, oldmarkup). I dropped my
database, started mythtv as if it were a new installation and finally
re-imported the old recordings.
then I did the mythcommflag -f filename --rebuild on a couple of
files, tried to edit them, and still got the 'no seektables' message.
By the way, this time the tables looked correct (eg thousands of
records in recordedseek, only a few in recordedmarkup).


At this time I'm even more puzzled.
Could it be something to do with the message:
Parser not found for Codec Id: 94211 !
?

or maybe something peculiar about my tv-cards?
I've tried on different files from different channels from two different cards.