[mythtv-users] Last commercial break during recording

[Tony Lill]

Rod Smith <mythtv at rodsbooks.com> writes:

> On Friday 15 January 2010 11:34:01 am Aaron wrote:
>> I'm not sure if this is a bug or "as designed"; but when recording a
>> show and having it skip commercials, MythTV always misses the very
>> last commercial break. Is this so you don't miss the preview for next
>> week's show?
>
> AFAIK, it's not a design feature. Two possible causes spring to mind:
> 2) Sometimes, when commflagging while recording, the commflagging
>    process terminates before the recording has finished. This seems
>    most common for me when it's a remote backend doing the commflagging.
>    The result is that the last commercial break (or two or three or
>    more) will be unflagged. The solution is to run commflagging after
>    the show has completely recorded. Since I often want to start
>    watching while the show is still recording, I've left my system
>    configured to start commflagging when the recording starts, but I
>    also check the status page and if I notice anything with suspiciously
>    few commercial breaks found, I go in and tell Myth to re-flag that
>    recording. There may be a relatively simple solution to this problem
>    (adjusting NFS mount options, for instance), but if so I don't know
>    what it is.

What about when transcoding finishes before commflagging, and swaps
the file before the commflagger gets to the end?

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