[mythtv] Why do we still use MARK_GOP_START?

Boleslaw Ciesielski bolek-mythtv at curl.com
Wed Jan 11 23:04:12 UTC 2006


Geoffrey Hausheer wrote:
> This means that a DVB stream which can have a variable sequence
> length could get marked as using a fixed key-frame distance if it
> happens that the first sequence has 12 or 15 frames (I think).

I can confirm that this actually happens. I had an ATSC stream that got 
indexed (very) incorrectly with MARK_GOP_START because of this (this was 
using "mythcommflag --rebuild", not during recording).

Bolek


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