[mythtv-users] Commercial flagging forever

Niels Dybdahl niels.dybdahl at gmail.com
Thu May 12 20:45:36 UTC 2005


> > I have one recording that has been flagged as being commercial flagged
> > for a very long time (6 months). I can not start transcoding on it; I
> > suppose because it is being commercial flagged.
> 
> this happens sometimes when the backend or the mythcommflag dies while a
> recording is being commflagged. it leaves a flag in the database to say that
> it's currently being flagged.
> 
> the easiest way to fix this
> might be to manually run
> 
> mythcommflag --force -f /mnt/store/<..filename..>.nuv
> 
> this way
> -you don't have to touch and possibly mess up the database
> -you get the file finally commflagged

Thanks for the advice. I tried it but mythcommflag crashes before the
flagging completes.
I guess I will just archive the file as it is.

Best regards
Niels Dybdahl


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