[mythtv-users] seeking/editing in mythfrontend

[John Pilkington]

On 27/03/2021 08:26, Stephen Worthington wrote:
> On Fri, 26 Mar 2021 20:50:26 -0500, you wrote:
> 
>> I transcode my recordings to an x264-encoded video stream in a matroska
>> container. I use ffprobe to update the recordedseek table after
>> transcoding. I have been doing this for a couple years.
>>
>> In both v0.28 and v0.29 (from the mythbuntu ppa), I was able to seek and
>> edit these mkv files without difficulty. In v0.31/fixes from the same
>> ppa, seeking and editing is broken for these transcoded files--it
>> appears that any movement in the video is only by a keyframe. Playback
>> is fine.
>>
>> Seeking and playback in fine in vlc and ffplay, fwiw.
>>
>> This seems like a regression to pre v0.28 behaviour.
>>
>> Has anyone seen similar behaviour? Suggestions on how to workaround the
>> problems? Ideas about what caused the regression?
>>
>> TIA,
>> Leo
> 
> Have you tried using the mythcommflag --rebuild option to rebuild the
> seek table using the official method?

TTBOMK the MythTV seektable isn't used for playback of files in matroska 
format.  If you somehow create one it may upset things.  ISTR that 
'recordings' and 'videos' get different treatment.

I 'transcode' to mythffmpeg  -f mpegts format, which is myth-native and 
plays well for me in the frontend or via UPnP or Firestick 4k.  But all 
my video cutting, mostly from mpeg2 recordings, is keyframe-based;  I 
find that acceptable.  I still get the best results by using ProjectX to 
demux and sync-adjust before remuxing, but can't do that for h264.