[mythtv-users] "NVP: Prebuffer wait timed out 10 times" - errors after rebuilding seektable for recording
Michael T. Dean
mtdean at thirdcontact.com
Wed Dec 24 14:22:31 UTC 2008
On 12/24/2008 09:14 AM, Mike Holden wrote:
> I had a few old recordings that had no seektable entries due to a
> corrupted table that was fixed some time ago but I didn't get round to
> fixing the individual recordings at the time. These recordings play ok,
> but obviously you can't skip forward or backwards, which is a real bind.
>
> All recordings are UK Freeview DVB-T using a Nova T.
>
> After rebuilding the seektable using:
> mythcommflag --rebuild --verbose important,general --allend 20080831235959
>
> to rebuild all programs before that date (August 2008 and before).
>
First, the use of mythcommflag --rebuild is only supported on a
file-by-file basis... I.e. it was not designed to work on a group of
files and there has been very little testing using that approach.
> Is this normal? Recordings made normally appear to have seektable entries,
> so why is this tool unable to process the files?
>
And, second, you shouldn't even be using mythcommflag to rebuild the
entries for /MPEG/ recordings.
http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/index.php/Repairing_the_Seektable
Mike
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