[mythtv-users] No seektable

Brad DerManouelian myth at dermanouelian.com
Thu Apr 10 15:23:28 UTC 2008


On Apr 10, 2008, at 7:19 AM, Tim Sawyer wrote:

> On Tuesday 08 Apr 2008, Brad DerManouelian wrote:
>> Do you want these videos in your database? If they're recordings that
>> have just orphaned themselves from the db, you can put them back with
>> myth.rebuilddatabase.pl
>
> Thanks.  I'm happy to leave them in the videos area - this command  
> would not
> be able to work out their correct names would it?

Yes, it often does. You should try it. :)

> Done that, but it doesn't seem to have made a difference, I still  
> get no
> seektable if I try and edit.
>
> I wrote a script to do the commflag:
>
> #!/bin/sh
> # script to commflag all videos
>
> filelist=`ls *.mpg`
> for i in $filelist
> do
>  echo $i
>  mythcommflag --video $i
> done
>
> which outputs stuff like this a lot:
>
> 1001_20071218162000.mpg
> 2008-04-10 15:16:24.754 Using runtime prefix = /usr, libdir = /usr/lib
> 2008-04-10 15:16:24.763 Empty LocalHostName.
> 2008-04-10 15:16:24.837 New DB connection, total: 1
> 2008-04-10 15:16:24.878 Closing DB connection named 'DBManager0'
> 2008-04-10 15:16:24.878 mythcommflag version: 0.21.20080304-1 www.mythtv.org
> 2008-04-10 15:16:24.878 Enabled verbose msgs: important
>
> MythTV Commercial Flagger, started at Thu Apr 10 15:16:24 2008
> Building seek table for: 1001_20071218162000.mpg
> Rebuilt
>
> Finished commercial break flagging at Thu Apr 10 15:16:34 2008
>
> 1001_20071219162000.mpg
> 2008-04-10 15:16:34.906 Using runtime prefix = /usr, libdir = /usr/lib
> 2008-04-10 15:16:34.907 Empty LocalHostName.
> -snip-
>
> But it didn't seem to make a difference.
>
> Any ideas?

I didn't follow the thread far back enough to know what your actual  
problem was. I jut saw that you asked how to make a seektable for  
videos not in the database.

-Brad



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