[mythtv] Seektable file vs. DB

Craig Longman craigl at begeek.com
Sat May 24 01:34:12 EDT 2003


Isaac Richards wrote:

>On Friday 23 May 2003 09:18 pm, Craig Longman wrote:
>  
>
>>Chris Pinkham wrote:
>>    
>>
>>>So, the main benefit is fixing and preventing broken files but there
>>>are a couple smaller benefits as well.  I have code to re-create
>>>the seektable in the file if it is damaged or non-existent but that
>>>isn't really necessary with the patch I applied today.  I can email
>>>it to anyone if they want, but don't expect it to show up CVS
>>>anytime soon.
>>>      
>>>
>>chris, i would love to have this.  i have a number of  broken recordings
>>that i want to edit and archive, but i need the seek tables.
>>    
>>
>You can't use what he's talking about, it's only for recreating the seekfile 
>in the actual file for nuppelvideo files.  All you need to do fix the mpg 
>files you have that don't have seektables is use the mythcommflag program -- 
>it'll regenerate missing seektables when it flags commercials.
>
works like a charm, i'm still making my through the individual external 
programs, thanks for the pointer!

cheers,

    CraigL->Thx();




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