[mythtv-users] help please ...

Stephen Worthington stephen_agent at jsw.gen.nz
Thu Apr 9 00:54:51 UTC 2020


On Wed, 8 Apr 2020 19:06:59 +0200, you wrote:

>On 08/04/2020 19:04, Jan Ceuleers wrote:
>> On 08/04/2020 06:00, Stephen Worthington wrote:
>>> There is no particular need for a seek table for video files, unless
>>> they are transport streams.  If they are normal video files, they
>>> include a seek table or the equivalent internally.
>> 
>> I beg to differ. Rewinding doesn't work properly without one, and I have
>> the same problem with my DVB-C recordings.
>
>Sorry, need to correct myself: I have the same problem with the DVDs I
>have ripped using Handbrake, and I'm not sure what other settings would
>be needed in Handbrake for it to produce a file that MythTV can produce
>a seek table for such that rewinding works properly.

DVB-C recordings would be transport streams, so I would expect them to
need a seek table.  But with my collection of video files, apart from
the ones that MythTV can not play properly at all (such as some old
WMVs), I do not have any problems with skipping or reverse skipping in
a file.  I never use fast forward or rewind - skipping is much faster
and easier to do.  For the files that do not work in MythTV, I have
mplayer set up as an alternate player and it usually works.  However,
for an alternate player to work, the files need to be accessed locally
using the old video directory list, rather than via storage groups.

When you say "Rewinding" do you actually mean rewind or skip?  Fast
forward and rewind are used by only a very few people now, so they
tend to be unloved by the devs and probably are not tested very well.
They are simply not as useful or easy to use as skipping and once
people start to use skipping they rarely ever use fast forward or
rewind again.


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