[mythtv-users] Shield fronrend and video playback times

[Greg Oliver]

On Tue, Jan 29, 2019 at 8:07 AM Stephen Worthington <
stephen_agent at jsw.gen.nz> wrote:

> On Mon, 28 Jan 2019 20:14:26 -0600, you wrote:
>
> >Please bootom post on this mailing list.
> >
> >On Mon, Jan 28, 2019 at 11:33:17AM -0800, Jon Boehm wrote:
> >> On Mon, Jan 28, 2019 at 9:13 AM David Engel <david at istwok.net> wrote:
> >>
> >> > On Mon, Jan 28, 2019 at 09:27:29AM -0600, Greg Oliver wrote:
> >> > > I see frequent issues with time calculations on some recordings - in
> >> > other
> >> > > words, while the video is still playing, the progress show it at
> the end
> >> > > already.
> >> > >
> >> > > I watch Nova (and others) on PBS here and they all show the
> symptom.  I
> >> > am
> >> > > unsure exactly when it happens, but I have watched 3 this morning
> and
> >> > they
> >> > > all jump to the end.  If I set a bookmark, it actually sets it at
> the end
> >> > > of the video even though there is really 20 minutes left to play.
> >> > >
> >> > > Recorded from HDHR.  I see it on other local channels as well, but
> not as
> >> > > frequent and I have not analysed video when it happens.
> >> > >
> >> > > Anyone else experience this?
> >> >
> >> > I've seen that on KERA recordings too.  The same symptom (I don't know
> >> > if its the same problem) occurs very frequently with live TV.
> >>
> >> Have you marked the PBS channel as commercial free?  Perhaps its only
> >> finding one commercial break near the end and jumping to it immediately.
> >
> >It is marked as commfree.  This looks to be a classic case of
> >mis-counting frames, eiter building the seek table or playing back,
> >that crops up every once in a while.


This channel is marked as commfree here as well (since it never has
commercials).



> >David
>
> In the past when I have had a file like this, running "mythcommflag
> --rebuild" on a recording has usually fixed it.  That trick may only
> work for older similar problems, but it is worth trying.  I have a
> user job set up with this command that makes it easy to do that for a
> recording file:


It only happens on my Shield.


>
> mythcommflag --rebuild -f %FILE%
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