[mythtv-users] Moving recordings to mythvideo

George Nassas gnassas at mac.com
Sun Jul 13 15:26:05 UTC 2008


On 13-Jul-08, at 7:46 AM, Sebastien Astie wrote:

> I tried to copy mythtv recordings to mythvideo (just moved the files  
> within the filesystem).
> When I copied them, the internal player in mythvideo could not skip  
> forward or backwards while the file in the recording section has no  
> problems.
> Did anybody experienced the same behaviour and knows how to fix it ?

The internal player handles skipping using indexes written into a  
database table for recordings. Mythvideo doesn't index its files so  
that's why the same player acts differently even though you're playing  
the same file. Even without an index the internal player typically  
makes pretty good guesses with videos. There must be something unusual  
about your recordings.

There isn't a fix in that folks can point you to some option or  
setting that you should enable. Someone would have to write code to  
index things in the videos list and make the player aware of that. It  
gets talked about every so often but nobody has stepped up to do it yet.

- George



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