[mythtv-users] Mythcommflag failing on HDHR Prime

[Monkey Pet]

On Fri, Oct 12, 2012 at 11:38 AM, Kenneth Emerson <kenneth.emerson at gmail.com
> wrote:

> Now that 0.26 is out, I'm curious about other .26 adopter's experience
> with mythcommflag and the HDHR Prime (with cable card).  I cannot pinpoint
> exactly when I started having failures, but it has been at least 4 months.
>  I want to say that it started happening when the ffmpeg library was merged
> into the mythtv repository but I have no notes to back that up.
>
> I have an HDHR Prime that records my HD cable channels, an HDHR dual
> channel that records OTA HD channels and a Hauppauge HVR1800 PCIe tuner
> that also records OTA HD channels.  Virtually every recording off of the
> HDHR Prime (>90%) fails in commercial flagging (mythcommflag segfaults)
> even though the recordings look fine when watched.  Virtually every
> recording off of the HDHR and HVR1800 succeed in commercial flagging.
>
> I am running Ubuntu 1204 (Precise) on an Intel i5 quad core system with
> 8GB RAM and the pae kernel and running myth from git head.
>
> There was some discussion about this earlier and the devs pointed to
> ffmpeg being the culprit (most of the time).  But I'm curious as to whether
> or not I am using the wrong settings for the HDHR Prime (not really sure
> there are any), wrong firmware, or what.  Can others who use the HDHR Prime
> (USA) pitch in with their experiences whether or not they are seeing the
> same problem?
>

I have mythtv 0.26/fixes with HDHR Prime (comcast).  Most of my commercial
jobs are successful, so I haven't noticed the failure rates you indicated.


>
> -- Ken E.
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