[mythtv-users] Possible Problem with commercial detection code

[nate s]

Can you elaborate on what you did to fix this?  I've been having the
same problem, which I believe I have fixed by disabling automatic
commerical detection, but if there's a better way, I'd love to hear
it.

-Nate


On Mon, 22 Nov 2004 11:25:01 -0600, Adam Biskobing <tv at badmoon.com> wrote:
> I have been having a long standing problem with the backend crashing, I
> have finally figured out what was causing it and wanted to let others
> know if they are experiencing random/unknown crashes, this could be the
> cause.
> 
> My setup is a DirecTV RCA receiver connected to a PVR-250.  I had not
> cleaned out my channels as much as I should have, and occasionally would
> get a recording on a channel that I do not have.  I found out that the
> crashes were occuring when channel detection would be run on these
> recordings that consist of nothing but black.  I would assume that the
> commercial detection code ran out of memory when it would try to buffer
> black frames for commercial detection, but I'm not the programmer so I
> do not know for sure.  After removing the channels that caused the
> problem, I have not had a crash for two weeks.
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