[mythtv] Insertion of external recordings into MythTV's recordings list

Kevin Kuphal kuphal at dls.net
Mon Mar 28 21:48:19 UTC 2005


Kevin James wrote:

>Hi again
>So I've managed to get my TiVo streams read from my TiVo, grabbed the
>programme data and inserted it into the "recorded" table, so that they
>are merged into my recordings list. However, When I start playing one of
>these files, skip forward works intermittently / not at all, and the
>time length of the file is reported incorrecly on the OSD. I get the
>following in the trace window:
>
>[mpegvideo_xvmc_vld @ 0xb79d1cd4]warning: first frame is no keyframe
>[mpegvideo_xvmc_vld @ 0xb79d1cd4]Past frame is a B frame in
>findPastSurface
>
>I have no idea what this means, but I'm guessing that something is
>missing from the mpeg file created from the TiVo stream. If someone who
>knows about the playback part of Myth can give me a clue, I can go and
>try to find something to fix my files with.
>  
>
Did you run mythcommflag against the file to build a seektable after 
importing them with the script?

Kevin


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