[mythtv-users] (slightly OT) Mplayer playback of myth recordings sometimes won't seek-back properly

[Steven Adeff]

On Mon, Dec 15, 2008 at 5:31 PM, Jeffrey J. Kosowsky
<mythtv at kosowsky.org> wrote:
> I typically record shows on my Linux myth backend and then copy them over to
> my laptop where I watch them with cygwin mplayer under Windoze.
>
> On maybe about 20% of my recordings, I find that for long stretches of
> the playback (say 10-20 minutes) seeking-backward (any
> amount)jumps back consistently to the same spot which may be up to
> 10-20 minutes back. This contines until I reach a point in the
> recording where seeking-back works again.
>
> The same recording doesn't have the problem when viewed in mythtv.
> Not sure if this is due to a "bad recording" format (that mythtv uses
> other info to compensate for) or a bug with mplayer.
>
> Any ideas?

have you tried forcing mplayer to reindex the file before playback?


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