Re: [mythtv-users] Seeking driving me nuts

Tue, 05 Jul 2005 00:48:31 -0700

With 0.18.1 in my amd64 box, I was doing:
  1. Capture as RTJPEG (SW compression).
  2. Mark commercials.
  3. Transcode into MPEG-4.
I found that many recordings failed to fast-forward, rewind or jump-to-commercial-point properly. Typically the recording would only jump into one or two specific places of the recording.

I don't know if it had something to do with the 2GB file limit, but the impression I had is that it happened more with longer recordings.

Since then I switched over to:
  1. Capture as MPEG-4.
  2. Mark commercials.
And now seeking and jumping work flawlessly. Also, seeking now finds correct key frames or whatever in the recorded stream, while before (IIRC) I could usually see MPEG-4 artifacts after a seek until the stream stabilized on a key frame.

I don't know if this helps anyone, but I actually would like my original setup to work, because real-time software MPEG-4 encoding is sometimes too much for my box (which has to perform some other tasks in the background too).


Regards,

   Juan Jesús.


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