[mythtv-users] help - some recordings seem to be much too short.

[Chris Rouch]

On Tue, Jan 5, 2010 at 3:42 AM, Michael T. Dean <mtdean at thirdcontact.com> wrote:
> On 01/03/2010 05:05 PM, Chris Rouch wrote:
>> I've just upgraded to 0.22. All the programs that i recorded before
>> the upgrade all playback correctly. But some of the ones recorded
>> since do not. The recording is good - mplayer plays it correctly and
>> shows the correct length - but mythfrontend thinks it is much shorter
>> than it really is. That said if i skip forward using mythfrontend i
>> can skip past the point where it would play to and it will play for a
>> few minutes more before stopping again.
>>
>> As an example, I recorded the last episode of doctor who. With padding
>> this is a 1 hour, 31 minute recording and a 1.7Gb file mythfrontend
>> shows it as being 20 minutes long and stops when it reaches 21
>> minutes. if i then skip forward to around 7 minutes (as shown on the
>> display) i can see that i'm at the point where playback stopped (i.e
>> 20 minutes) and watch again for 5 minutes or so. the amount extra i
>> can gain this way seems to get less with each iteration. needless to
>> say this makes playback very tedious.
>>
>> this seems to be the case with all recordings on bbc1 and bbc2, but
>> not on the other channels i've recorded from since the upgrade.
>>
>> does anyone have any ideas how to fix this?
>>
>
> First step:
> http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/User_Manual:Periodic_Maintenance#Optimize_the_Database
>

That should be running from cron.daily anyway, but I ran it by hand to
make sure. It made no difference.

Thanks,

Chris