[mythtv-users] commercial flagging and transcode jobs dying

[jafa]

> Hi guys,
>
> Yesterday I noticed my machine was getting behind on the job queue... it 
> was working on a transcoding job but very slowly. A quick check showed 
> that the mythcommflag was using 80% of the CPU even though there were no 
> active commercial jobs (according to mythtv system status). BTW - I have 
> the cpu option for the job queue set to high (nice = 0) and limited to 
> one job at a time.
>
> I set up another mythtv backend to provide some more CPU power so it 
> could catch up.... This morning I noticed that a transcoding job on the 
> second backend was stuck at 50% progress. The mythtranscode process was 
> not running. No obvious error messages.
>
> I did an svn update, recompiled, and now it is transcoding the same job 
> again. It will be interesting to see if it has the same problem in the 
> same place.
>   
Both good and bad... the problem is repeatable :-)

Mythtranscode died in the same place... 1 hour into the 2 hour program.

Mythbackend shows:

2006-07-03 09:56:50.592 XDS: Current Program Length 2:00 Time in Show 
0:59.00
2006-07-03 09:57:33.627 XDS: Current Program Length 2:00 Time in Show
1:00.00
2006-07-03 09:58:06.048 TFW: safe_write(): funky usleep

The recording plays ok in mythtv.

Nick
> Any thoughts on how I can diagnose this further?
>
> Quick side-question - is there a way of working out which tuner was used 
> for a particular recording?
>
> Thanks
>
> Nick
>