[mythtv] Video playback framerate

[Peter Bennett]

On 1/8/19 10:34 AM, Stephen Worthington wrote:
> On Tue, 8 Jan 2019 10:33:29 +0000, you wrote:
>
>> On 8 January 2019 1:28:41 pm Stephen Worthington <stephen_agent at jsw.gen.nz>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> On Mon, 7 Jan 2019 14:25:11 +0000, you wrote:
>>>
>>>> How big are peoples databases currently running...
>>> I have a monster database.  So increasing the size of the recordedseek
>>> table would have a big impact on me:
>>>
>>> root at mypvr:/var/lib/mysql# du -h mythconverg
>>> 14G     mythconverg
>> 14G, of which 13.4G is recordedseek table alone.
>>
>>
>>> 4.0K    mythconverg/recordedseek.frm
>>> 7.0G    mythconverg/recordedseek.MYD
>>> 6.4G    mythconverg/recordedseek.MYI
> Yes, that is the way it works.  In most databases, most of the storage
> is used in the recordedseek table.  I should also say that I am not
> opposed to changes to recordedseek - it is one of the good things
> about MythTV as it makes skipping about in recordings work
> excellently, and improving that is a good thing.  I just want everyone
> to be aware of the potential for problems with databases as large as
> mine.  Imagine how long a schema update might take if all of my
> recordedseek had to be converted to a new format.  And it would be
> dramatically worse if all of my recordings needed to be rescanned to
> do it - how long would it take to just read 65 Tbytes of data, let
> alone do processing on it?
>
Point taken, we will not make any changes that require recreating the 
seek table. I would prefer to get rid of the seek table, but I don't 
know if that can happen.

Peter