[mythtv-users] Need sanity check re: repairing seektable and commflagging

[Craig Huff]

On Wed, May 13, 2009 at 11:22 AM, Michael T. Dean
<mtdean at thirdcontact.com> wrote:
> On 05/13/2009 11:32 AM, Craig Huff wrote:
>>
>> snip...
>>
>> After reading wiki pages and e-mail archives it appears that my next steps
>> are:
>>
>> $ for file in "list of last night recording filenames" ;
>> do
>>  mythtranscode --mpeg2 --buildindex --allkeys --showprogress --infile
>> $file
>>  mythcommflag --file $file
>> done
>>
>> Or, alternately take the mythcommflag command out of the do-loop and
>> use this after the do-loop:
>> $ mythcommflag --allstart 20090512130000  #for everything recorded
>> after 1pm yesterday
>>
>> Is this correct?  Complete?  Or do I need to do something more/different?
>
> Make sure you've run optimize_mythdb.pl first.  Then, build seektables for
> any new recordings.  The mythcommflag approach won't work for MPEG-2 (unless
> you're running trunk), so you'll probably need to do the mythtranscode
> approach.
>
My apologies for not being more clear.  I agree that I first need to
use mythtranscode since the MPEG-2 files are ones produced from
PVR-500 captures.  The questions were A) whether the mythtranscode
command had all the right options, and B) that my guess was correct in
that I afterwards need to run mythcommflag (one flavor or the other)
to get all the commercials flagged for skipping during viewing.

It sounds like we are in agreement.

Hopefully I will get to work on this in an hour or two.

Will check back one more time before I dive in.

Thanks for the feedback.

Craig.