Difference between revisions of "Repairing the Seektable"
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| − | It is possible to corrupt your seektable for one or more recordings, which can result in: | + | It is possible to corrupt your [[Recordedseek_table|seektable]] for one or more recordings, which can result in: |
- Being unable to skip forward and backward correctly, and | - Being unable to skip forward and backward correctly, and | ||
- Recordings reporting the incorrect length. | - Recordings reporting the incorrect length. | ||
| − | mythcommflag and mythtranscode are two of the tools that can be used to rebuild the seektable. | + | [[mythcommflag]] and [[mythtranscode]] are two of the tools that can be used to rebuild the seektable. |
[[Image:Important.png]] '''Note:''' After rebuilding the seektable, any cutlist you have created for a recording will no longer be properly synced and should be recreated. | [[Image:Important.png]] '''Note:''' After rebuilding the seektable, any cutlist you have created for a recording will no longer be properly synced and should be recreated. | ||
Revision as of 12:12, 9 January 2008
It is possible to corrupt your seektable for one or more recordings, which can result in: - Being unable to skip forward and backward correctly, and - Recordings reporting the incorrect length.
mythcommflag and mythtranscode are two of the tools that can be used to rebuild the seektable.
Note: After rebuilding the seektable, any cutlist you have created for a recording will no longer be properly synced and should be recreated.
Contents
Preparation
Using mythtranscode
If you have trouble rebuilding a seektable with mythcommflag, try using mythtranscode as follows:
mythtranscode --mpeg2 --showprogress --infile <path-to-file>
(where path-to-file represents a file listed in mythtv recordings)
Using mythcommflag
Use the --rebuild option.
Possible Causes of a Corrupt Seektable
- Editing a recording outside of the MythTV Frontend.
- Excessive disk IO during recording could prevent invalid SQL updates to the Seektable (I think).
