[mythtv-users] Strange time counter issue with recent NBC OTA recordings

[John Pilkington]

On 14/11/13 03:42, Tom Dexter wrote:
> I record New York City OTA stations and am running MythTV 0.25.3.
>
> For the last couple of weeks, all my NBC (channel 4.1) recordings have
> had strange things happening with the progress time counters.  The
> shows record and play just fine...nothing missing or anything else
> like that.  What's odd is that, while a one hour show will in fact
> show as having a length of 1:00:00 or thereabouts, the progress while
> it's playing will go from 0 to 50 minutes.  Also, if I jump to 50
> minutes or anything past that, it ends up at the end of the show.
>
> NBC has had a long history of mixing frame rates and other odd stuff.
> If I remember correctly, in earlier versions of MythTV things like
> this that used to cause MythTV to report incorrect show lengths.  I
> figured this may be something similar.
>
> Anyone else noticing anything like this?
>
> Thanks
> Tom

This sounds like seektable trouble.  Does mythcommflag --rebuild improve 
matters?

ISTR that commits that probably aren't in 0.25.3 store time marks as 
well as frame numbers in or around the seektables to handle variable 
frame rates.  Doesn't explain why it's suddenly happening for you, though.

John P