[mythtv-users] Transcoding help

Kevin Kuphal kuphal at dls.net
Tue May 23 18:29:15 UTC 2006


raptorjr wrote:
> I was experimenting with some settings in the mpeg2 to mpeg4 transcoding.
> After the transcoding i was not satisfied with the result. But that was not 
> a problem
> since the old recording was saved. So i deleted the new transcoded recording
> and renamed the old so that everything should be like before.
> But it wasn't.
> I guess that Myth has some timecodes/indexes or something in the database
> for every recording? Now when i try to play the old recording the time is 
> displayed
> wrong in the OSD, and when editing the recording it is impossible to 
> navigate
> because something is wrong. Sometimes i'm in the middle of a commercial, and 
> the
> next frame i'm in the movie again. But that commercial shouldn't have been 
> there at all.
> It seems that Myth has a problem to navigate in the recording now.
>
> So, what can i do to make Myth re-index (or whatever) so it is like it was 
> before i did
> my transcoding?
>
>   
mythcommflag --rebuild with the switches for the file (see --help for 
details)

Kevin


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