[mythtv-users] Finally using comflagging (wow!), have a few questions

[Brad DerManouelian]

Tom Dexter wrote:

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> First (slightly dumb) question...when I see people referring to
> "realtime commflagging", they're simply referring to use of the "Start
> auto-commercial flagging jobs when recoding starts" setting, correct?

Correct. It's not "real-time", it's just "start as soon as the program 
starts recording".

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> Here's my main question: (Note that I'm still running 0.20.2 for now).
>  I'd like to record some selected shows using realtime commflagging,
> mostly ones that we tend to start watching when they're about half
> over...it works great for those cercumstances.  I'd prefer to have the
> others just run during the night.  As far as I can see there's no way
> to do that with programs marked for auto-commflagging.

Correct. They enter the job queue when they start recordings and 
whichever gets there first starts first.

> The work-around I was considering was to leave everything set the way
> it is; mark the shows that I want flagged in realtime for auto
> commflagging; and to write a simply nightly cron job that picks up
> everything else from the previous day using mythcommflag with the
> --allstart option.

A better option might be to set a user job that starts commflagging on a 
recording and by default have it run after each job. Then on your "high 
priority I want to commflag as soon as possible" programs, have that set 
to automatically start commflagging as soon as the program starts 
recording (your current setting). That way, those start ASAP and the 
normal shows commflag once they are done recordings. That way you don't 
end up without commflag on something that was recorded earlier in the 
day until the next day and you don't run your processor all night all 
full speed with tons of queued up commflag jobs.

Don't forget.. if you have another linux machine on your network, you 
can set that up to run commflag jobs for you to help offload your master 
backend. I was running with 4 machines at one point. A master backend, a 
slave backend/frontend and 2 that just ran commflag/transcode jobs. It 
was pretty nice until I got my electric bill and brought it down to 1 
box that does everything. ;)

-Brad