[mythtv-users] Recording coming up as wrong length of time?

Rich West Rich.West at wesmo.com
Wed May 2 18:05:50 UTC 2007


Jeff Wiens wrote:
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: mythtv-users-bounces at mythtv.org
> [mailto:mythtv-users-bounces at mythtv.org] On Behalf Of Rich West
> Sent: Wednesday, May 02, 2007 10:04 AM
> To: Discussion about mythtv
> Subject: [mythtv-users] Recording coming up as wrong length of time?
>
> My other half just called complaining that she can't skip through one of
> the shows she recorded.  From what I can see, the entire show did
> record, but when you bring up the progress bar it only displays 5mins
> 38seconds. as the length of the show.
>
> Now, as she watches it, it does count past the 5:38, but she still can't
> skip commercials (the commflagger comes back stating that no breaks were
> found).
>
> I checked the db, and all of the tables are ok (nothing marked as
> "crashed").
>
> I ran mythcommflag --video <filename> to rebuild the seek table, but
> that didn't make any difference..
>
> Any ideas as to what might be out of wack and what I can do to correct
> it?
>   

> I had similar problems.  I did the mythcommflag --rebuild.  The old
> shows still showed incorrectly but newly recorded ones were fine.

I just ran mythcommflag --rebuild -f <file> and it rebuilt the seek
table for the show in question.  I wonder if there is something up with
the show, since it is now coming up as 2hrs and 45mins (actual running
time is 1hr 45mins).  *shrug*

-Rich



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