[mythtv-users] Clearing the cutpoints in the database

[Michael T. Dean]

On 03/01/2012 07:37 PM, Ian Evans wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 1, 2012 at 7:26 PM, Jim Stichnoth<stichnot at gmail.com>  wrote:
>> On Thu, Mar 1, 2012 at 4:19 PM, Michael T. Dean<mtdean at thirdcontact.com>  wrote:
>>> Start playback of the recording.  Hit E, then MENU|Cut List
>>> Options|Clear Cut List.
>> I'm not sure he's talking about this kind of cut point.
>>
>> Maybe "mythcommflag --rebuild ..." is what is needed to regenerate the
>> seek table.
> Yeah, the clear cut list didn't work. To clarify the workflow here, I
> was recording the Oscars on a US channel which suddenly seemed to have
> some video glitches. Started a 2nd recording on the Canadian
> broadcast.
>
> Originally thought I might have to stictch them together with ffmpeg
> to create one recording.
>
> Before I experimented with that I made backup files of both
> recordings, US and Cdn.
>
> Since only the US recording had the beginning I edited it down from a
> 23 gig file to a 1 gig file in Myth. Lossless transcode.
>
> After spending some quality time with the two files, I'm beginning to
> think the few glitches in the US broadcast are bearable.
>
> I copied the 23 gig file back over the 1 gig edited file.
>
> Myth sees it as a 17 minute file. If I look in any other player
> outside of Myth, it's a 3+ hour file.
>
> So...should I try the rebuild?

Yes.  Then do another mythcommflag --rebuild when you upgrade to 0.25, 
after it's released (as it fixes some other stuff that will be broken 
even after a --rebuild in 0.24-fixes).

Mike