[mythtv-users] ff/rew problems with Internal player on Videos
Kevin Kuphal
kuphal at dls.net
Wed Mar 23 17:08:57 UTC 2005
jondz wrote:
>On Wed, 2005-03-23 at 09:16, Joseph A. Caputo wrote:
>
>
>>On Tuesday 22 March 2005 10:32, Donavan Stanley wrote:
>>
>>
>>>On 21 Mar 2005 23:04:50 -0500, jondz <jondz at dca.net> wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>>(Internal player). I put "internal" on the video
>>>>player (instead of mplayer).
>>>>
>>>>FF/REW/Page up/down wont work with playing videos,
>>>>the ff/rew are mostly too slow. Page up/down
>>>>will delay for too long (10,30 seconds) then
>>>>mostly wont work anyway (might move forward only
>>>>a few frames or just jump backward).
>>>>
>>>>
>>>You need to build a seek table for them using mythcommflag.
>>>
>>>
>>I was actually going to post about this... I've tried everything I can
>>to get seeking to work in my movie rips, to no avail. I saw a post
>>recently that mentioned it's necessary to run 'mythcommflag --video'
>>with the *full* path of the video file (rather than the path relative
>>to the video dir). I've tried both ways, and while the results were
>>different, neither was a success. I've verified that the movies have
>>seektables in the 'filemarkup' table. At best, what seems to be
>>happening is that the video seeks properly, but the audio doesn't, so
>>the video freezes until the audio catches up. I'm not sure if that's
>>actually what's happening, but that's the appearance it gives. I
>>should mention that most of my movies are XviD AVIs (most produced by
>>MythDVD, some by DVD::Rip), as I seem to recall that AVI seeking was
>>less mature than some other kinds.
>>
>>I'd be happy to do anything necessary to help debug this.
>>
>>-JAC
>>
>>
>
>I have exactly the same problem!
>
>Last nite I did a few tests with mythcommflag --rebuild ---video
>/path/to/movie and the Page up/down worked---but the audio were
>thrown out of sync.
>
>In my case the video didnt freeze but the audio was just way
>out of sync (about 2 seconds late or early i'm not sure).
>
>
I see the same thing. The mythcommflag helps in getting the duration
right and the skipping or ff/rw working better but the audio always
loses sync.
Kevin
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