[mythtv-users] cutlist faulty skipping

John Pilkington J.Pilk at tesco.net
Thu Jun 10 09:07:34 UTC 2010


On 10/06/10 09:47, Rob Verduijn wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I'm using mythtv to record movies and tv series.
> After the recording I manually edit the recording to add a cutlist so
> that the commercials are skipped.
>
> This all works fine but when watching the recording the cutlists skips
> the commercials about 30-40 seconds early.
> Which makes watching it very anoying to say the least.
>
> I tried cleaning up my db with the maintenance scripts
> * flush_deleted_recgroup.pl
> * myth.find_orphans.pl
> * optimize_mythdb.pl
> But it didn't help.
>
> I rebuild my seektable with 'mythcommflag --rebuild', but it didn't help.
>
> I tried switching harddisks and filesystems, also to no avail.
>
> I'm a bit at loss here does anybody have any ideas about what I could
> also try to fix this ?
>
> Rob Verduijn
> _______________________________________________

I think there have been problems in the past with Mythcommflag 
--rebuild.  Try something like (if, of course, it's an mpeg2 recording)

> mythtranscode --mpeg2 --buildindex --showprogress --chanid 1014 --starttime 20100609234500

John P


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