[mythtv-users] help - some recordings seem to be much too short.

[Michael T. Dean]

On 01/03/2010 05:05 PM, Chris Rouch wrote:
> I've just upgraded to 0.22. All the programs that i recorded before
> the upgrade all playback correctly. But some of the ones recorded
> since do not. The recording is good - mplayer plays it correctly and
> shows the correct length - but mythfrontend thinks it is much shorter
> than it really is. That said if i skip forward using mythfrontend i
> can skip past the point where it would play to and it will play for a
> few minutes more before stopping again.
>
> As an example, I recorded the last episode of doctor who. With padding
> this is a 1 hour, 31 minute recording and a 1.7Gb file mythfrontend
> shows it as being 20 minutes long and stops when it reaches 21
> minutes. if i then skip forward to around 7 minutes (as shown on the
> display) i can see that i'm at the point where playback stopped (i.e
> 20 minutes) and watch again for 5 minutes or so. the amount extra i
> can gain this way seems to get less with each iteration. needless to
> say this makes playback very tedious.
>
> this seems to be the case with all recordings on bbc1 and bbc2, but
> not on the other channels i've recorded from since the upgrade.
>
> does anyone have any ideas how to fix this?
>   

First step:
http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/User_Manual:Periodic_Maintenance#Optimize_the_Database

Mike