[mythtv-users] Stuttering and 147 commercial breaks flagged

[Allen Edwards]

On Wed, Jan 13, 2010 at 10:08 AM, Yeechang Lee <ylee at pobox.com> wrote:

> Allen Edwards <allen.p.edwards at gmail.com> says:
> > The log says we are getting mega audio sync, data lost, issues.
> > What I noticed was that the shows that are having trouble are having
> > 147 commercial breaks flagged in the 1/2 hour show.
>
> It's not the networks tricking MythTV. Something is interrupting
> writes and/or reads to the disk. This is causing recording chunks to
> be lost, and severely confusing mythcommflag (see
> <URL:http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/users/262480#262480>)
> for a similar case). The cause could be anything, though:
>
> * A dying hard drive is forcing sectors to be reread
> * A bad network cable
> * CPU busy running another application
>
> Etc., etc. Figure out what is causing the interruptions.
>
>
If this is what is going on, what should I look for to troubleshoot it?
 Would there be a log entry somewhere?  I was surprised that changing from 2
comflag jobs to only allowing 1 comflag job didn't help.  Again, it was just
select shows but then again, maybe that was a coincidence.

Allen


Allen
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