[mythtv-users] Moving recordings to mythvideo

[Paul Harrison]

George Nassas wrote:
> On 13-Jul-08, at 7:46 AM, Sebastien Astie wrote:
>
>   
>> I tried to copy mythtv recordings to mythvideo (just moved the files  
>> within the filesystem).
>> When I copied them, the internal player in mythvideo could not skip  
>> forward or backwards while the file in the recording section has no  
>> problems.
>> Did anybody experienced the same behaviour and knows how to fix it ?
>>     
>
> The internal player handles skipping using indexes written into a  
> database table for recordings. Mythvideo doesn't index its files so  
> that's why the same player acts differently even though you're playing  
> the same file. Even without an index the internal player typically  
> makes pretty good guesses with videos. There must be something unusual  
> about your recordings.
>
> There isn't a fix in that folks can point you to some option or  
> setting that you should enable. Someone would have to write code to  
> index things in the videos list and make the player aware of that. It  
> gets talked about every so often but nobody has stepped up to do it yet.
>
> - George
>
>
>   

You can manually create the seektable for videos using mythcommflag --video.

Paul H.