[mythtv-users] Transcoding an mpg file

[Dick Steffens]

On 07/16/2014 02:33 PM, Hika van den Hoven wrote:
> Hoi Dick,
>
>
>> So, two questions:
>> 1. Am I on the right track to giving Myth the information it needs to
>> allow for intelligent jumping around (and bookmarking) in the video?
>
>> 2. If yes, which options do I need?
> To fix this for files recorded with mythtv:
> mythcommflag --rebuild -f %FILE% will rebuild the seektables. I don't
> know if this works with your external files.

On 07/16/2014 02:45 PM, John Pilkington wrote:
> Try
>
> mythcommflag --rebuild --video -f <filename>

Here's the results I get when trying those approaches:

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rsteff at ThinkCentre-M58p:/var/lib/mythtv/videos$ mythcommflag --rebuild 
-f Jungle\ Book.mpg
2014-07-16 19:06:58.122500 C  mythcommflag version: fixes/0.27 [v0.27.2] 
www.mythtv.org
2014-07-16 19:06:58.122516 C  Qt version: compile: 4.8.1, runtime: 4.8.1
MythTV Commercial Flagger, building seek table for:

2014-07-16 19:06:58.249812 E  Couldn't find file , aborting.
2014-07-16 19:06:58.250179 E  Couldn't find file , aborting.
2014-07-16 19:06:58.250183 E  Unable to find file in defined storage paths.

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rsteff at ThinkCentre-M58p:/var/lib/mythtv/videos$ mythcommflag --rebuild 
--video Jungle\ Book.mpg
MythTV Commercial Flagger, building seek table for:
     Jungle Book.mpg
Rebuild started at Wed Jul 16 19:09:06 2014
2014-07-16 19:09:06.470055 C  mythcommflag version: fixes/0.27 [v0.27.2] 
www.mythtv.org
2014-07-16 19:09:06.470072 C  Qt version: compile: 4.8.1, runtime: 4.8.1
Rebuild completed at Wed Jul 16 19:09:26 2014
2014-07-16 19:09:26.318798 E  decoding error
             eno: Unknown error 541478725 (541478725)
rsteff at ThinkCentre-M58p:/var/lib/mythtv/videos$

Yesterday, when I played that video, skip jumped to somewhere in the 
middle of it. After running the above, it now has less than the full 
video. When I paused it yesterday both the current location and the 
total length reported the same (I think). Now the current location looks 
reasonable, skip works reasonably, but the total length is on 33:26.

Unfortunately, I don't have an copy from before running mythcommflag. I 
do have a second video I copied today, so I'll try that and will keep a 
copy of it after running mythcommflag.

-- 
Regards,

Dick Steffens