[mythtv-users] Internal video player - "fast forward" & video length

[Donavan Stanley]

On Mon, 24 Jan 2005 18:10:31 +0100, Harald Deischinger
<harald.deischinger at aon.at> wrote:
> I am using the TV-Out of a PVR-350 - so for MPEG2 files the internal
> video player is giving me a very good picture quality.
> But there are two problems (one is only a little bit confusing the other
> one is really annoying):
> 1. the length of the video is not determined correctly, it even jitters
> while the movie is playing.
> 2. "fast forward" is extremely slow when playing the video from a slow
> media (WLAN) - it seems that the player first thas to read the whole
> file before it can skip properly.
> 
> Is there an easy solution for this, or is someone working on this?

Have you built seek tables for the videos using mythcommflag?  If not
you'll have issues seeking within the file.