[mythtv-users] Mythcommflag errors in .26 (was 'show pops up End of Recording but plays through Mythweb')

Ian Evans dheianevans at gmail.com
Fri Nov 23 05:35:51 UTC 2012


On Fri, Nov 23, 2012 at 12:15 AM, George Nassas <gnassas at mac.com> wrote:
> On 2012-11-17, at 4:16 PM, Ian Evans wrote:
>
>> On Mon, Nov 5, 2012 at 3:46 PM, Ian Evans <dheianevans at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Just thought I'd rename the thread because the issue(s) from my thread
>>> (http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/users/532409) seem to be
>>> stemming from Mythcommflag randomly failing at rebuilding the
>>> seektable as well as randomly failing to flag commercials. Using .26.
>>>
>>> Due to dwindling space (need a new drive!) I've been shrinking some
>>> shows that won't be watched for a few days with a handbrakecli line in
>>> a user job. That line is immediately followed by a mythcommflag
>>> rebuild line. This user job was successfully used under .24 and .25.
>>>
>>> All my recordings are ATSC OTA TV recorded with an HDHomerun.
>>>
>>> Like Greg in this thread
>>> (http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/users/531387) I too have
>>> noticed intermittent commflagging issues since moving to 12.04 and .26
>>> a few weeks ago. I did not have this issues prior to the upgrade.
>>
>> is no one else seeing this? I had it happen to two recordings again yesterday.
>
> I have been having similar issues after a .26 upgrade and my profile is like yours - OTA ATSC recordings converted by handbrake's cli which used to make it through commflag --rebuild but since the upgrade don't. I only have the problem with shows from CBS and The CW which, in my area, are owned by the same company. In my case the seektable rebuild completes but myth shows the recordings to be exactly half their true length. The entire recording is there, I can see it using mplayer, but myth pops out after it gets to the 50% that it thinks is the end of the recording.
>
> The other bit of info I would add is CBS seems to be the only network that changes framerates during program/commercial transitions so my guess is there is some sort of weird interaction happening between the original material, handbrake, and mythcommflag. I only did the 0.26 upgrade a few days ago and haven't had much time to look into this but it's definitely an unwelcome feature.
>
> When I get a chance I'm going to look into turning off any deinterlace and reverse pulldown stuff that handbrake may be doing and see if that helps.
>

Do you have an HD Homerun? I've been having it with a few different
channels. PBS, OMNI in Toronto, NBC Buffalo


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