[mythtv-users] Problems with mythvideo and HD-PVR recordings

[Jim Stichnoth]

On Sat, Aug 22, 2009 at 8:04 PM, Brad DerManouelian <bderman at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Aug 22, 2009, at 7:56 PM, Jim Stichnoth wrote:
>
>> I've been trying to move some movies from the MythTV recordings area
>> into the MythVideo area, to live among the various DVD rips.  This
>> works fine for HDHR recordings, and for other recordings that were
>> transcoded to mpeg-4.  But I have problems with HD-PVR recordings.
>> They generally work OK if I simply play from the beginning, but the
>> player freezes up if I try to skip or ff/rew, and logs a lot of
>> "Waiting for prebuffer" messages.  This is a little puzzling since I
>> have mythvideo configured to use the Internal player for all file
>> types, and playback works just fine within mythfrontend.  I'm using
>> 0.21 svn20549 with the JYA VDPAU patches.
>>
>> In any case, I was wondering if anyone has a magic ffmpeg command line
>> that would result in a more playable mythvideo file, with roughly the
>> same file size and quality.  I tried "-vcodec copy -acodec copy" and
>> got a file that was about 5% smaller and wouldn't even begin to play
>> under mythvideo.
>
> When you move the recording you lose the seektable. rebuild the seektable
> with mythcommflag --video <filename> and see if that helps.
>
> -Brad

I'm happy to report that this works properly in 0.22 (that is, after
running mythcommflag --video /path/to/filename).

Now, if only there were a way to trim the commercials from the HD-PVR
recording, or get a cutlist into the mythvideo playback...

Jim