[mythtv-users] Will the builtin player play MKVs these days?

[Dan Wilga]

On 12/13/13, 10:11 AM, Michael Stucky wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 13, 2013 at 9:00 AM, Dan Wilga 
> <mythtv-users2 at dwilga-linux1.amherst.edu 
> <mailto:mythtv-users2 at dwilga-linux1.amherst.edu>> wrote:
>
>     On 12/12/13, 6:47 PM, John Pilkington wrote:
>
>         I had this comment from Michael Stucky in July, after I had
>         added his suggested mkv output option to my mythDVBcut script
>         to enable it to cut HD mpeg recordings, with which the mplex
>         remuxer apparently failed.
>
>             I should have mentioned above, once the file is in an MKV
>             container it is no longer in a format that MythTV
>             considers a "recording". In other words, it is not
>             editable or seekable as a recording. You need to use
>             "mythexport" or some other script like that to move it to
>             your MythTV Video library where you can play, fastforward,
>             rewind, etc. as you would any imported video.
>
>         Is that still true?
>
>     Not entirely. I have converted a large number of recordings to MKV
>     and the ability to skip/fast forward/rewind/bookmark/etc. is still
>     available. It's just necessary to run "mythcommflag --rebuild" on
>     the file after the change, to rebuild the seektable.
>
>     However, despite having done this, my attempts to edit these
>     recordings with the built-in editor result in a complaint that
>     there is no seektable. I've been using avidemux to cut
>     commercials, instead.
>
>  It is my understanding that running "mythcommflag --rebuild" on an 
> MKV will actually remove the seektable from the database (at least 
> that is how it worked for MythTV 0.26, I have not tested it under 0.27 
> as I have gone back to using mythtranscode). Thus, my comment to John 
> that the MKV files were not editable or seekable. This was correct 
> behavior (which could have changed for 0.27) since MythTV wasn't 
> designed (this is my understanding which could be incorrect -- and 
> hopefully someone more knowledgeable will correct me) to edit/seek 
> within an MKV container.
My point is that they are always seekable in 0.27 (and were usually in 
0.26 as well), after the "--rebuild". They are just not editable.
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