[mythtv-users] Problem playing mpg file from the Videos directory

[Jerry Rubinow]

On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 12:14 AM, Michael T. Dean
<mtdean at thirdcontact.com>wrote:

> On 02/16/2009 11:46 PM, Jerry Rubinow wrote:
> > On Mon, Feb 16, 2009 at 11:23 PM, Jerry Rubinow wrote:
> >
> >
> >> I moved a couple of mpg files from the Recordings directory to the
> Videos
> >> directory, scanned them with the Video Manager, and they play fine from
> >> Watch Videos.  Except I cannot skip forward or back at all.  If I try,
> the
> >> frontend locks up.  I get an OSD with the position when I try skip
> forward,
> >> but the picture doesn't change.  After a few seconds the OSD fades away.
> >>  Hitting Exit has no effect.
> >> Any ideas what's going on?
> >>
> >>
> >
> > Hmm, I found a thread in the archive which mentioned using mythcommflag
> > --video, so I tried that.  Now I can skip through the video, but the
> > progress meter is very confused.   It thinks an hour show is 59 seconds
> > long.  Skipping ahead seems to skip by 30 minutes instead of 30 seconds,
> and
> > skipping back seems to skip by seven minutes instead of seven seconds.
>  But
> > on the bright side it's not locking up.
>
> Yes, you need a seektable for MPEG-2 videos in MythVideo.  In -fixes,
> mythcommflag --rebuild (even with --video) is broken for most (all?)
> MPEG-2, so you should use mythtranscode --buildindex (with appropriate
> other flags, including the one that says to operate on a MythVideo
> video).  See the wiki page:
> http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Repairing_the_Seektable (because I'm not
> providing all the info you need here).


Thanks Mike, mythtranscode (with aformentioned appropriate flags) did the
trick handily.

-Jerry
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