[mythtv-users] removing cutlist and ffwd/rev

[Brad DerManouelian]

On Jan 27, 2009, at 9:59 AM, Johan Reinalda wrote:

> All,
> We have a large number of recordings with lots of extra space before  
> and after shows (due to irregular starttimes on a FTA channel.)  We  
> hand-create cutlists for these show to not show the extra recorded  
> sections. However, now diskspace is starting to fill up with this  
> extra space (currently in the order of 75GB, due to the large number  
> of most kids shows that we keep)
>
> I wrote a script to find those programs with cutlists, and remove  
> these sections from the underlying mpg files to save drive space,  
> using the following commands (mostly copied from the wiki entries at http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/index.php/Removing_Commercials)
>
> mythtranscode -c <chan> -s <starttime> --showprogress --mpeg2 -- 
> honorcutlist -k
> <move temp files around>
> mythcommflag -c <chan> -s <starttime> --rebuild
> mythcommflag -c <chan> -s <starttime> --clearcutlist
> <set database recorded entry to proper file size>
>
> The shows now play perfectly (if you let them play), but forward/ 
> backward behaves strangely. Eg. On a 10 min. recording, pressing fwd  
> (set for 60 secs) most of the time goes to the end of the program.  
> Sometimes only goes forward a few seconds (seems to be in the first  
> minute only)
>
> While this is not a huge thing, I wonder if anyone has any ideas  
> what I am missing? My guess is, something in the 'recorded' table  
> that still needs to be adjusted ?

Try rebuilding the seektable again. I have a feeling --clearcutlist  
might have mucked with it and it's out of sorts.

-Brad