[mythtv-users] mythcommflag kills audio?

[Mike Parkins]

On Tuesday 02 May 2006 02:48, Michael T. Dean wrote:
> On 04/30/2006 06:14 PM, Mike Parkins wrote:
> >I had a dodgy recording which didn't seem to have a seektable so I ran
> >mythcommflag --rebuild on it but the resulting file now has no sound and
> > the seektable is weird (3 hours long instead of 1 hour!). When played,
> > mythfrontend complains about "audio codec in use, so leaving it alone"
> > and seeking works but the timings are wrong. Other recordings still work
> > fine.
> >
> >I just tried mplayer and the sound worked ok so here is mplayers take on
> > it...
>
> Right.  The mythcommflag program only reads the recording--it doesn't
> write any information to the recording file.  Therefore, your recording
> is as good as it was before you ran mythcommflag.  My suggestion is to
> re-run mythcommflag, but this time as:
>
> mythcommflag --force --rebuild -f
> /mnt/mythfiles/1007_20050912015900_20050912025500.nuv

Tried another run but no change, still no sound and the seektable goes up to 3 hours for a 1 hour program. 
This is what mythcommflagg produced...

[root at mythserver mythtv]# mythcommflag --force --rebuild -f 1007_20050912015900_20050912025500.nuv
2006-05-02 09:46:33.247 Using runtime prefix = /usr/local
2006-05-02 09:46:33.454 New DB connection, total: 1
2006-05-02 09:46:33.496 mythcommflag version: 0.19.20060331-1 www.mythtv.org
2006-05-02 09:46:33.497 Enabled verbose msgs: important

MythTV Commercial Flagger, started at Tue May  2 09:46:33 2006
Rebuilding SeekTable(s) for:
ChanID  Start Time      Title                                      Status
------  --------------  -----------------------------------------  ------
2006-05-02 09:46:33.524 New DB connection, total: 2
1007    20050912015900  Forty Years Of F***                        2006-05-02 09:46:33.689 Using protocol version 29
0: start_time: 4994.680 duration: 318.071
1: start_time: 4994.691 duration: 318.081
2: start_time: 4994.680 duration: 318.092
stream: start_time: 55496.442 duration: 3534.358 bitrate=3687 kb/s
2006-05-02 09:46:34.095 AFD: Warning, video codec 0x810ae10 id(MPEG2VIDEO) type (Video) already open.
2006-05-02 09:46:34.096 AFD: Warning, audio codec 0x810b210 id(MP2) type (Audio) already open, leaving it alone.
2006-05-02 09:46:34.096 AFD: Warning, audio codec 0x810b600 id(MP2) type (Audio) already open, leaving it alone.
 99%/ 1461fpsRebuilt

Finished commercial break flagging at Tue May  2 09:47:35 2006