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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 07/16/2014 05:20 PM, Jean-Yves
Avenard wrote:<br>
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type="cite">Hi<br>
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On Thursday, July 17, 2014, Dick Steffens <<a
moz-do-not-send="true" href="mailto:dick@dicksteffens.com">dick@dicksteffens.com</a>>
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I have some mpg files that I generated by playing some video
tapes into a ReplayTV, and then saving them with WiRNS. I want
to put them in my Videos collection in Myth. That's easy enough
to do by moving the .mpg files to the correct directory and then
running mythutil --scanvideos. I can watch the videos with Myth,
but Myth doesn't know how to jump ahead and back. I understand
this is because Myth didn't keep track of stuff while it was
being recorded and that I need to run something to give Myth
that knowledge. I found<br>
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<div>Myth keeps its own seek tables, so seeking is fast and
reliable. </div>
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<div>However, they should never ever be a must have. </div>
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<div>Even if your file doesn't have seek tables, myth can still
seek into the file, using different method. That's what happens
with most videos in the video library that do not have seek
tables (usually, only recordings do)<span></span></div>
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<div>If it can't seek then it's a bug. </div>
Can you open a ticket and provide a sample so we can look into it?<br>
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Looks like last night was a fluke. I started up another video I just
copied to the /var/lib/mythtv/videos and was able to skip through
it. I have a different problem, though, in that the recorder didn't
complete the recording. But that's for a the ReplayTV forum.<br>
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Regards,
Dick Steffens
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