[mythtv] position/cutlist not updating (more info)

[Isaac Richards]

On Friday 14 March 2003 04:05 pm, Chris Palmer wrote:
> Isaac Richards wrote
>
> > On Friday 14 March 2003 06:44 am, Chris Palmer wrote:
> > > I decided to do a little debugging on my own and so I added a
> > > few debugging output lines to libs/libmythtv/NuppelVideoPlayer.cpp
> > > which show which criteria in NuppelVideoPlayer::SetBookmark
> > > was causing the bookmark to not get set.
> > >
> > > The very first if-statement was the one that was triggered:
> > >     if (!haspositionmap) {
> > >         cerr << "DEBUG: Unable to SetBookmark:  !haspositionmap\n" <<
> > > endl; return;
> > >     }
> > >
> > > I have no idea how to track it from here, but hopefully this
> > > gives you guys some good clues, based on my description below
> > > and the condition being triggered.
> >
> > If there's not a seek table in the file, it (as you've seen) refuses to
> > edit or set bookmarks on it.
>
> what is a "seek table" and how do I make one?  why isn't there one?
> is it because I started the recording "late", or because I was watching
> the program while it recorded?

Because you were watching it while it was being recorded.  Seek tables don't 
get added until the recording has ended.

Isaac