[mythtv-users] Many programs not getting any commercial detection

[Mark Knecht]

On Mon, Sep 22, 2008 at 6:54 PM, Mark Knecht <markknecht at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 22, 2008 at 1:33 AM, Jon Bishop
> <jon.the.wise.gdrive at gmail.com> wrote:
> <SNIP>
>>> Too bad we didn't manage to get any of the 'in the know' folks to
>>> respond, but none of my Sunday morning political talk shows got
>>> commercial detection today.
>>
>> Have you tried manually telling the episode to detect commercials
>> (select the recording (I use accelerator keys) to get info, go to job
>> options, and tell it to flag commercials)? Is it not detecting
>> commercials, or is it not running the commercial detection at all?
>>
>
> OK, the NBC Nightly News didn't have commercial detection tonight.
> First time I remember that program not having it so I tried looking
> into what you said.
>
> 1) When I first came into the program after looking at the icons in
> the program info box it said that commercial detection was in
> progress. (A small 'gear' picture, implying work I suppose.) However
> 'top' and ps aux show no signs of mythcommflag running. The program
> had finished recording 40 minutes ago so the job should have finished.
>
> 2) I went to the job options and stopped commercial detection. The
> gear disappeared.
>
> 3) I then restarted commercial detection. The gear came back back up
> and now mythcommflag is showing up as using 14% CPU and 13% memory/
>

Sorry but I should have added that commercial detection did work
correctly after I ran it by hand.

- Mark