[mythtv-users] Cannot seek with live tv recordings.

Jon jon at sd-6.org
Thu Apr 5 22:07:14 UTC 2007


 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: mythtv-users-bounces at mythtv.org 
> [mailto:mythtv-users-bounces at mythtv.org] On Behalf Of Michael T. Dean
> Sent: Thursday, April 05, 2007 4:09 PM
> To: Discussion about mythtv
> Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] Cannot seek with live tv recordings.
> 
> 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


As already stated, tried to repair the db and completely wiped out the db
more than once.



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