[mythtv-users] mythcommflag --rebuild --file doesn't update seek table

[Frank Phillips]

On Mon, Feb 16, 2015 at 6:51 PM, Brian J. Murrell <brian at interlinx.bc.ca>
wrote:

> If I run:
>
> $ mythcommflag --rebuild --file /storage2/2917_20150214030000.mkv
> MythTV Commercial Flagger, building seek table for:
>     Blue Bloods - Power Players
> 2015-02-16 19:44:12.939483 C  mythcommflag version: fixes/0.27
> [v0.27.4-4-gb305eb5] www.mythtv.org
> 2015-02-16 19:44:12.939543 C  Qt version: compile: 4.8.1, runtime: 4.8.1
> Rebuild started at Mon Feb 16 19:44:13 2015
> No I-frames found, rewinding...
> Rebuild completed at Mon Feb 16 19:45:35 2015
> 2015-02-16 19:45:35.548964 E  decoding error
>                         eno: Unknown error 541478725 (541478725)
>
> I don't end up with anything in the seek table:
>
> mythtv at pvr:~$ echo 'select * from recordedseek where chanid = "2917" and
> starttime = "2015-02-14 03:00:00";' | mysql -u mythtv -p****** mythconverg
>
> I wouldn't really care except without a seektable you can't edit
> recordings.
>
> So why doesn't it update?
>

I would say you need to do your editing before you transcode to mkv. MKV
doesn't need or use external seektables. See the last half of this thread:
http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/users/559603#559603
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