[mythtv-users] MythTV commercial removal

Anthony Giggins seven at seven.dorksville.net
Sat Jul 6 04:45:54 UTC 2013


On 6 July 2013 05:35, Rod Roark <rod at sunsetsystems.com> wrote:

> > That’s probably the smart way but there’s also an arcane feature where
> you can tell it to do lossless transcoding when fed an mpeg2 file.
> >
> > In mythtv-setup:
> >
> > - head to option 3 recording profiles
> > - down to transcoders
> > - Autodetect from MPEG2
> > - enable the “Lossless Transcoding” option
>
> I tried that but found that when you play the recording, its reported
> length is trashed. For example 14 hours 59 minutes instead of the actual
> 40 minutes.
>
> There's an almost identical report here that seems to have been unnoticed:
>
> http://www.mythtv.org/pipermail/mythtv-users/2012-September/340539.html
>
> Rod
> _______________________________________________
>
>
I've found if you rebuild the seek tables with mythcommflag this corrects
that issue.

ie. mythcommflag --rebuild -f 4030_20130701091000.mpg

Cheers,

Anthony
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