[mythtv-users] Problems with recovered recordings

[Phill Wiggin]

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I've got something of a problem, and I was wondering if anyone had
seen it before.

What has gone before:

~    I recently bought and installed a PVR-250 that worked fine for
about a week, then went wacky.  I tried several things and ended up
deciding to reinstall KnoppMyth.   I backed up my database,
CableProvide.xmltv, and all the .nuv files.  After the re-install, I
set up the cards, ran mythfilldatabase, and imported the recorded,
oldrecorded, and (I believe) the recordedmarkup tables.

~    The current problem is that some of my TV recordings act odd when
I try to fast-forward them.  Basically, if I try to go 30s ahead, the
playback pauses for about 5 seconds and then goes to the right place.
During this 5 second pause, the OSD shows the current time index as
staying the same, but the Total Time starts increasing!  If I try to
jump 10 minutes ahead, the playback locks up, but I'm able to hit ESC
and return to the frontend. I _can_ play the videos from start to
finish without any problems, if I just let them play.  To make the
situation more odd, not all of the recordings do this.  It seems like
the offending programs are the ones recorded on the PVR-250.  (New
PVR-250 recordings work just fine, as do what I assume are the
bttv-based recordings.)

~    If I hit 'M' to bring up the editing menu, the whole thing would
lock. -- I assume this is because the recordedmarkup table was empty,
but the recorded table said 'cutlist=1', 'commflag=1' or something
like that.

~    Running mythcommflag seemed to help the situation.  After the run
was finished, I could fast-forward without it locking up, but the
Total Time appears to be an additional 7 hours/30 minute show. (For
instance, Tripping the Rift shows up as 7:27:00 total time).  At this
point, if I hit 'M', I get the usual OSD, but all the cut-points are
on the 1st 1/6th of the bar, and there are a _lot_ of them.... It
seems like they're just about every frame.

~    Does anyone have an idea of what I've done wrong here?  I'd
appreciate any help, ideas, or just pointers to related material.

Thanks in advance,
Phill W.
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