[mythtv-users] Commercial skipping

[Daniel A Segel]

Nathan Smith wrote:
> On Sun, 25 Jun 2006, Robert Tsai wrote:
>
>   
>> On Sun, Jun 25, 2006 at 08:00:39PM -0400, mooshie wrote:
>>     
>>> That makes sense, although Myth does not flag any of the commercials
>>> at all, so it makes me think that it is a configuration problem.
>>> I've spent a few hours going through the menu setup to make sure
>>> that all commercial settings are ON (the "Automatically flag
>>> commercials" setting is on, as with "All" for commercial detection,
>>> along with the ) but no luck (I've tried to record a few different
>>> shows on a few different channels as well).
>>>       
>> Try running the mythbackend with "-v commflag" and see if there is any
>> evidence of the commercial flagger even running.
>>     
>
> I did that, and when commercials started playing on the frontened, nothing
> showed up on the backend (nothing showed up after recording as well.) Does
> this mean it is most likely a configuration issue?
>   
Do you have your preferences set to start commercial flagging as soon as 
the show starts, or to wait until it is finished recording? If it's set 
to start right away, then log in and do:

ps ax | grep commflag

when a show is being recorded to make sure the commercial flagger 
(mythcommflag) is actually running. I had a problem a while back because 
I had the wrong version of mythcommflag installed, and it was quitting 
as soon as it was called.

You can also try to run mythcommflag manually to see if it outputs any 
objections. Use mythcommflag --help to get command-line options.

Daniel