[mythtv-users] Something strange with watching (and editing) shows

Ian Forde ian at duckland.org
Wed Apr 25 22:48:04 UTC 2007


On Wed, 2007-04-25 at 18:23 -0400, Michael T. Dean wrote:
> Got a broken DB?  Sounds a /lot/ like the symptoms of having a bad 
> seektable.

Would have been my first thought... but this was a new recording...

> My recommendation is to run optimize_mythdb.pl and record a new 2-hours+ 
> recording and test with that.

It runs every night out of cron, and I've seen the output from last
night's run - came out fine...

> If the new recording works, you'll need to fix the seektable on any 
> "broken" recording.  If you're capturing with an analog source, 
> "mythcommflag --rebuild" (with the appropriate arguments to specify 
> which recording to rebuild) should work nicely.  If you're using a 
> digital source, you might have to try "mythtranscode --buildindex" (with 
> appropriate arguments...).  And, even that might not work.

I'll try it on this recording...

> The easiest approach, though, is to delete the broken recordings and 
> re-record, if possible.

Yeah, but everything was working perfectly until this series of
upgrades... I know it's a classic story but... ;)

	-I
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                       Ian Forde
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