[mythtv-users] Seek Tables

[Nick Rout]

On Sat, Aug 16, 2014 at 2:28 PM, Jean-Yves Avenard <jyavenard at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi
>
>
> On Saturday, August 16, 2014, James Linder <jam at tigger.ws> wrote:
>>
>> Can anyone explain please:
>>
>> I have various videos which I play from the upnp server on various
>> frontends.
>> On my samsung TV some videos can seek to a time, some the time seek is
>> greyed out.
>> On a video that I can’t seek I rebuilt the seek table as per the wiki
>
>
> If you're playing the videos over upnp, rebuilding the seek tables serve no
> purpose.
>
> The seek tables are only use by the native mythtv frontend.
>
> If the Samsung TV can't seek in that particular video, there's nothing you
> can do.
>
> You may try to reencode the video into another format that the Samsung tv
> can handle
>

Thus the myth of upnp compatibility is exposed again!