[mythtv-users] Problems with mythvideo and HD-PVR recordings

[Brad DerManouelian]

On Aug 22, 2009, at 7:56 PM, Jim Stichnoth wrote:

> I've been trying to move some movies from the MythTV recordings area
> into the MythVideo area, to live among the various DVD rips.  This
> works fine for HDHR recordings, and for other recordings that were
> transcoded to mpeg-4.  But I have problems with HD-PVR recordings.
> They generally work OK if I simply play from the beginning, but the
> player freezes up if I try to skip or ff/rew, and logs a lot of
> "Waiting for prebuffer" messages.  This is a little puzzling since I
> have mythvideo configured to use the Internal player for all file
> types, and playback works just fine within mythfrontend.  I'm using
> 0.21 svn20549 with the JYA VDPAU patches.
>
> In any case, I was wondering if anyone has a magic ffmpeg command line
> that would result in a more playable mythvideo file, with roughly the
> same file size and quality.  I tried "-vcodec copy -acodec copy" and
> got a file that was about 5% smaller and wouldn't even begin to play
> under mythvideo.

When you move the recording you lose the seektable. rebuild the  
seektable with mythcommflag --video <filename> and see if that helps.

-Brad