[mythtv-users] some type of rebuild on a recording

Michael T. Dean mtdean at thirdcontact.com
Wed Oct 29 23:56:43 UTC 2008


On 10/29/2008 03:54 PM, Kevin Kuphal wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 2:42 PM, James Pifer wrote:
>   
>> I have a recording that is about the right size, 2.5 gb (1 hour show
>> plus pre and post extra mins), but when I watch the recording it says
>> the program is only 19 mins long. Is there something I can do to rebuild
>> the index or something? I tried reflagging for commercials, but that
>> didn't do anything.
>>     
> mythcommflag --rebuild is probably what you're looking for.  Also, you can
> try mythtranscode --rebuild (double check the --help for that as I'm not
> sure that's the actual command-line option) for rebuilding MPEG-2
> seektables.

Yeah, for mythtranscode, it's --buildindex.

James, see http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/index.php/Repairing_the_Seektable

Mike


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