[mythtv-users] Cannot seek with live tv recordings.
Michael T. Dean
mtdean at thirdcontact.com
Thu Apr 5 21:08:52 UTC 2007
On 04/05/2007 04:19 PM, Jon wrote:
> This issue is not mine but a friends. He is running svn rev. 13123 and has
> been having this problem since back around rev 12000 range. I don't have
> the exact revision this started happening in and quite honestly don't think
> it's a regression bug.
>
> The problem is that he cannot seek in live tv recordings. Myth says the
> files are either only a few seconds long or _VERY_ long (days, maybe weeks).
> Have tried repairing the DB, dumping the DB, mythcommflag --rebuild, and
> mythtranscode --buildindex, even rebuilt his machine from Ubuntu Etch to
> Debian Sid.
>
> The only thing that seems to work is to use mencoder to rebuild the index
> and run mythcommflag --rebuild on the file.
>
> Now if he stops the recording at any time before the end of the program, the
> seeking appears to be fine. If he lets the recording carry over into the
> next program it is corrupt. It would seem that it is doing something at the
> end of the recording that is only done if it reaches the end of the program.
> I've had him run the backend with verbose logging and nothing is jumping out
> at me. I think he may also have the same problem with scheduled recordings,
> but it is more of a random occurance there.
Did you fix his broken database, yet? optimize_mythdb.pl in contrib
directory (on a daily cron is best).
Mike
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