[mythtv-users] watching mkv movies causes pausing problems
Raymond Wagner
raymond at wagnerrp.com
Sun Nov 27 22:38:12 UTC 2011
On 11/27/2011 16:27, Doug Lytle wrote:
> Taylor Ralph wrote:
>> Sorry but it's looking like after 0.25. Unfortunately I don't have the
>> time right now.
> That's fine, I was just curious. Off to look up how to rebuild my seek
> tables!
Those seek tables don't do what you think they do. When you build a
seektable for storage in the database, you are mapping keyframes to
physical locations in the file. That way, when you are seeking to a
given frame, you can just jump straight to the nearest keyframe, and
start playback immediately, rather than waste network bandwidth
searching for it. You still need an independent mechanism by which to
map a time to a given frame count, which is where the reported framerate
and basic arithmatic come into play.
When you play a telecined DVD, the content is encoded as 24fps
progressive, but flagged with a 2:3 pulldown and reported as 30fps. A
standard player applies the pulldown and outputs 30fps interlaced, while
a progressive player ignores the pulldown and outputs 24fps
progressive. As I understand it, the issue is that when makemkv ripped
the content to a new container, it discards the pulldown flag, but kept
the wrong framerate. Or it could be setting the proper framerate, but
including the pulldown flag. Either way, it's doing something bad that
timecode based players simply ignore and behave properly, but frame
accurate players such as MythTV cannot handle with.
That said, this is likely something that can be corrected by minor fixes
to the file. If you open the file up in mkvmerge, what does it report
the video's framerate as?
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