[mythtv-users] Hardware Question

[Andrew Dodd]

Quoting Isaac Richards <ijr at po.cwru.edu>:

> On Tuesday 02 March 2004 11:32 am, Andrew Dodd wrote:
> > Note that these can't be replayed reliably in Myth due to the fact that
> the
> > recordedmarkup DB table of GOP beginnings must be regenerated for the new
> > video. Unfortunately, there is currently no way to regenerate the GOP
> > tables for an arbitrary recorded video, it is only done during the
> initial
> > recording.  They do burn to DVD (via dvdauthor) quite easily though.  :)
> 
> Running mythcommflag will regenerate missing seek offset tables.  
For some reason, half the time I run it it fails to do so.

I wrote a patch to ivtv's mpegindex last night that will write a human-readable
list of GOP beginning offsets, and a Perl script that loads them into the DB. 
I'll post the patch and the script later today once I clean them up.  MUCH
faster and more reliable than mythcommflag.