[mythtv-users] what is mythbackend doing when in livetv withpvr250?

Joseph A. Caputo jcaputo1 at comcast.net
Wed Sep 10 10:40:21 EDT 2003


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> Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] what is mythbackend doing when in livetv
> withpvr250?
>
>
> Ahh, that sounds interesting and explains why I can hear the disk even
> when the recording is over and I'm not doing anything on it.
>
> I haven't played with the commercial skipping at all yet, I just
> thought it did it's magic in realtime while recoding so you could
> jump/skip while time-shifting as well as editing/skipping later, but it
> would make sense to do that after it's done recording and processor
> cycles are more freely available.
>
> When does it do the transcoding?
>
> thanks
> anders

Both commercial flagging and transcoding are threads that get kicked off
after a recording is finished, if enabled.  I don't really know how they
play with each other; i.e. if auto-transcode is enabled does it not run
until after the commercials are flagged?  I do know that if you transcode a
program (either with auto-transcode or by hitting 'X' in playback) the
commercial cutlist is removed and you must rebuild it by running
mythcommflag on the file (unless I'm doing something wrong?).  AFAIK, the
auto-transcoder doesn't honor cutlists, though I believe you do have that
option if you run mythtranscode manually from the command line.  I could be
wrong; I haven't played with it that much.

-JAC



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