[mythtv] Conversion in the background, can it reduce system

[Bruce Markey]

Chris Pinkham wrote:
> I have an add-on program in my source tree call mythcommflag.  Basically
> it gives the option of scanning for commercials in shows offline rather
> than doing it immediately after the record.  I could envision a 'workhorse'
> machine(s) that does nothing but things like reencoding video and doing
> intelligent commercial flagging, etc..  cpu-intensive tasks that aren't
> time-sensitive (ie, non-realtime required).   The same main commercial
> flagging function is used by mythbackend for post-recording commercial
> processing and by mythcommflag for offline processing.  The reencoding
> function(s) could be setup similar.

Chris, another useful offline function would be to build
the seektable for files that didn't have one appended at
the end of normal recording. Whenever I start to play one
of these files, I always wish I could press a button or
run a script before continuing to watch.

--  bjm