[mythtv-users] Problem with MPGs

[Trey Thompson]

>
>  On Tue, Jun 24, 2008 at 3:54 PM, Trey Thompson <treythompson at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >
> >>> > Most of my MPGs aren't able to fast forward/seek/etc...  This occurs
> in
> >>> > Mythfrontend, MythTV Player.  So, I checked the seek table, rebuilt
> it,
> >>> > etc...
> >>> >
> >>> > However, if I play the MPG in another program like VLC, even then it
> >>> > doesn't
> >>> > know the length of the file, and I can't properly seek/etc...
> >>> >
> >>> > Thoughts?
> >>>
> >>> I've found a bunch of these in my recordings recently.  When I try to
> >>> play them the player thinks they are only 2 minutes 10 seconds long
> >>> when they should be an hour.  The files are 6GB so it's certainly
> >>> longer than that.  Rebuilding the seek table doesn't improve the
> >>> situation.
> >>>
> >>> I ran it though VideoRedo and it seems to have fixed the problem.  I
> >>> am still investigating but these were all recorded on my HDHR around
> >>> the time the power supply was starting fail.  I guess that's my
> >>> leading suspect.
> >>
> >>
> >> Mine are all recorded with either a PVR-150 or PVR-500, off analog
> cable.
> >
> >
> > Anyone have an idea how I can troubleshoot this?
> >
>
> You can try to optimize your db tables and check/repair errors. Is
> your mysql data on a separate physical drive from your recordings? I
> think when people see this problem it's usually an IO issue with
> comflag, transcodes all going on at the same time and everything is on
> a single drive.
>
>

Thanks for the reply david!  Would this be the case if the problem existed
outside MythTV?  Windows Media Player and VLC both can't tell how long the
file is, or where it's currently playing.
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