[mythtv] skipping of videos in mythvideo...

[Steven Adeff]

On 9/2/06, Jochen Kühner <jochen.kuehner at gmx.de> wrote:
> Steven Adeff schrieb:
> > What type of file are you playing? The internal player requires mpeg
> > files seek tables defined in the DB, but AVI's and some other formats
> > don't require this. For mpeg files you can run
> > mythcommflag --rebuild --video <filename>
> >
> > to create the db entry.
> >
> >
>
> yeah, but why does vlc don't need thes seek tables?? is it possible to
> implement something like this
> also in the mythtv internal player??? so the seek tables can be removed
> and the database communication is reduced???

I don't think it specificly does, from what I've seen the DVD playback
does not require it, so perhaps it could be coded that files played
through MythVideo do something else. I don't know enough of how ffmpeg
works to really know though.

-- 
Steve
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