[mythtv-users] Corrupted recording, need help with diagnosis...

Douglas Peale Douglas_Peale at comcast.net
Wed Nov 10 20:50:36 UTC 2010


On 11/10/2010 12:25 PM, Greg wrote:
> On 11/10/2010 01:53 PM, Douglas Peale wrote:
>> On 11/10/2010 10:36 AM, Greg wrote:
>>> You didn't post the specs of your machine,but looking at your log,it appears you are using commercial detection at the same time
>>> as you are recording... There was a person a few weeks ago that had the same problem..I suggested turning off commercial
>>> detection until the program is recorded...That solved his problem... It don't cost anything to give it a try..
>> I just recently changed to allow commercial flagging at the same time as recording.
>>
>> Previously, commercial flagging would occur at the end of a recording, quite often starting commercial flagging of one show
>> slightly after another show started recording. I was not having trouble with that set up.
>>
>> Commercial flagging simultaneously with recording should be less stressful because the data the commercial flagger needs should
>> still be in the disk cache so it would not need to be read off the disk.
>>
>> I'm not saying you are wrong about the cause, but I would like to understand what is going on. To that end, I am going to leave
>> the setup as is, and attempt to catch it in the act.
>>
>> The system is an i7 processor with 6 GB of ram and a single 1.5 TB disk. It runs both a front end and a back end, and is also my
>> desktop.

>>
> OK, Just giving you a place to look..Maybe you can monitor your cpu usage while recording and comm flagging,to get an idea
> what's going on....
>  Your computer should handle it just fine...Good luck..

I've already been watching CPU usage, it is almost always near zero on all CPUs.


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