[mythtv-users] Commercial Flagging (UK, DVB-T)

[phipps-hutton at sky.com]

Quoting Roger Siddons <dizygotheca at ntlworld.com>:

> On Tue, 05 Mar 2013 10:20:38 -0000, <phipps-hutton at sky.com> wrote:
>
>> I get a segfualt at the end that is fixed with this patch:
>>
>
> Good spot. What logging are you using? Have you tweaked it further?  
> And how did you detect this ?
> It occurs on the last line and doesn't affect functionality but I'm  
> concerned that I don't see any indication of this on my system, even  
> though it must be segfaulting every time.

I am weird enough to have 'dmesg -c' running in an hourly cron job so  
I get a nice email whenever something bad happens (unless it's bad  
enough to take out the email system).

>>
>> I've not used this very long but is it waiting for the next set of  
>> silences before recording the last advert break? It just seems to  
>> take longer to record a break than I was expecting.
>>
>
> It does. On a typical programme, this design will only flag the 1st  
> advert when it reaches the 2nd. It seemed elegant when only  
> comflagging completed recordings, which is what I did until a couple  
> of days ago.
> I rarely watch in-progress recordings and only tacked this on as a  
> result of our recent discussions. So it is currently rubbish at  
> flagging in-progress recordings!
> I'm currently re-designing it to work effectively - v2 ETA ~1 week.

OK, will wait with bated breath.

>
> Moreover, I noticed yesterday that a comflagging job still doesn't  
> flag a programme that you're watching (for my shoddy testing I only  
> ran the script manually). I was hoping to get v2 out before anyone  
> noticed, but the fix for that is to change silence.py #156 to:
>
>     # player update message needs prog id (with time in Qt::ISODate format)
>     progId = str(chanid) + '_' + str(starttime).replace(' ','T')

Thanks.