[mythtv-users] how do you replace your recorded files with smaller, compressed files?

[Kevin Kuphal]

On Thu, Oct 22, 2009 at 1:56 AM, Evuraan <evuraan at gmail.com> wrote:

> I am nearing my disk capacity, and tried to reduce %usage by replacing
>  my older recordings with their smaller avis :
>
> mencoder input.mpg -ovc lavc -vf scale=720:480 -oac mp3lame -o output.avi
>
> I then changed the filesize and basename (to output.avi) of the
> programid using mysql updates, and deleted  input.mpg
>
> update recorded set filesize = '$SIZE' where programid: = '$GRAMID' ;
> update recorded basename = 'output.avi' where programid: = '$GRAMID' ;
>
> But when I tried to play the program from FE, the playback is screwed
> up - sometimes too fast, choppy, FF & RW sucks, and F/E even exited a
> few times.
>
> Hence this question: How do you guys do it? Am I doing it wrong?
> should I be saving those as something other than avi?
>

Your seektables are probably still set for the other recording.  Run
mythcommflag --rebuild on the file or mythtranscode (check the command-line
option) to rebuild the seek tables.

Kevin
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