[mythtv] Commercial flagging on corrupt recording crashes backend?

[Christopher N. Deckard]

Nate,
What version of the ivtv driver and firmware are you using?  I'm not 
seeing the same error messages that you are seeing, but the backend does 
hang in the same way that yours seems to.  I've disabled auto commercial 
flagging to see if it fixes the problem.  We shall see.

My backend has not once crashed, but it does hang either with a repeated 
"waiting for a thread.." error message, or "backend still changing 
state, waiting.."  Running on an Athlon64 with Debian amd64.

-Chris

nate s wrote:
> Hi.  
> 
> For the last few weeks, I'd been having my backend crash after running
> for about an hour, and recently, I've narrowed it down to the
> commercial flagging.  It turns out that due to a seemingly unrelated I
> was having, (fixed by either changing ivtv version or updating to the
> latest CVS,)  recordings having lots of video artifacts, which
> appeared even when played in mplayer.  (not so bad as to be
> unwatchable, just noticable.)
> 
> For a more complete discription of the original problem (complete with
> a backtrace) see here:
> http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/users/91978 .
> 
> Anyways, mythbackend was automatically running commercial flagging on
> that corrupt video, and spamming the logs with lots of mpeg2video
> errors for about an hour each time I'd start it, and then it would
> silently die.  (if I was in the frontend at the time, it just said
> "connection to backend unexpectedly lost" or something of that
> nature.)
> 
> Since then, I have disabled commercial flagging, and the backend has
> been running just fine for about 24 hours.
> 
> If you need any more info, just let me know.  I still have said video,
> and can perform some tests on it if need be, though it is over 2 gigs,
> so I don't really have anywhere to host it ;)
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> -Nate
> 
>