[mythtv-users] How do you stop automatic commercial flagging?

Mark Boyum mark at boyum.us
Wed Mar 17 12:16:33 UTC 2010


On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 7:08 AM, James Pifer <jep at obrien-pifer.com> wrote:

> On Tue, 2010-03-16 at 16:24 -0600, Brian Wood wrote:
> > On Tuesday 16 March 2010 03:40:29 pm Phill Edwards wrote:
> > > > I'm trying to see if commercial flagging is having an affect on
> periodic
> > > > bad recordings.
> > > > New recordings are still being commercial flagged. Is there something
> > > > else I need to do?
> > >
> > > I think there's a setting in the channel setup screen which lets you
> > > define a channel as not having adverts. I'm assuming that if you set
> > > that then there won't be any advert flagging for that channel by
> > > default.
> >
> > That's true, and it probably would work, but:
> >
> > There's a setting somewhere that allows flagging to start as soon as the
> > recording starts, and if you disallow that it won't start to flag until
> after
> > the recording is done, which is what the OP was after, I think.
>
> First I wanted to stop it completely to see if it fixes my issue. Did
> this by modifying the jobs to turn it off. If it fixes it, I would like
> to run commflagging only when no recordings are happening. Preferably
> between midnight and 6am. Not sure if that's possible.
>
> I suppose a script could be written to kick off commflagging for
> recordings for the previous day and run that from cron.
>
> Thanks,
> James
>
> There is a setting to setup a window when the backend will perform jobs.
 When I had an older backend it only processed commercial flagging and
transcodes after midnight.

Wish I could remember where the setting is at exactly, but it is there.
-Mark
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