[mythtv-users] How to I "fix" a program that MythCommFlag bombs on?

[Nick Rout]

On Mon, Apr 9, 2012 at 4:00 PM, Michael T. Dean <mtdean at thirdcontact.com> wrote:
> On 04/08/2012 11:24 PM, Phil Bridges wrote:
>
>> On Sun, Apr 8, 2012 at 11:12 PM, Michael T. Dean wrote:
>>>
>>> On 04/08/2012 11:03 PM, Phil Bridges wrote:
>>>>
>>>> I'm watching "Celebrity Apprentice" tonight as it's recording.  about
>>>> 10 or 15 minutes in, the playback exited.  I tried again, and it did
>>>> the same thing at the same spot.
>>>>
>>>> I realized, looking at the log, that mythcommflag was aborting the end
>>>> of the program.  I got the following line in the log:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Seek(): Offset from end: -18641516
>>>>
>>>> I tried to re-flag it, but mythcommflag exited:
>>>
>>> ...
>>>
>>>> How can I view the program past where mythcommflag exits?
>>>>
>>> mythcommflag --rebuild  ?
>>>
>> Hmm - well, I don't see the seek error anymore, but the recording
>> still exits, and I can't skip past the point.
>
>
> Ah, just realized that you said you were watching as it records.  There
> was/is? an issue where playback exits recording in progress when you catch
> up to the point it was recording when you entered playback.
>
> After it finishes recording it should play back fine as long as you exit and
> re-enter playback.
>
> However, since I had you run a --rebuild while it was recording, you'll
> likely have to do another --rebuild once it completes.
>

Also possible: the recording is simply broken at that point.