[mythtv-users] UK commflagging script

[John Pilkington]

On 31/01/11 16:01, Alex Butcher wrote:
> On Mon, 31 Jan 2011, George Poulson wrote:
>
>> On 31 January 2011 12:11, George Poulson <george.poulson at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>> I'll try to give this a go today too.
>>
>>
>>
>> Hmm..
>> My first few attempts have produced entries like these in the wrapper
>> logs...
>>
>>
>> {{
>>
>> /usr/bin/mythcommflag run with [-j 2196 -V 3] at Mon Jan 31 15:13:14
>> GMT 2011 by mythtv
>> running job 2196
>> channel callsign is FIVE
>> chanid=13106 STARTTIME=2011-01-29 05:28:00
>> basename is 13106_20110129052800.mpg
>> filename is /media/disk/mythtv/recordings/13106_20110129052800.mpg
>> Callsign in whitelist - will run silence_detect
>> silence_detect /media/disk/mythtv/recordings/13106_20110129052800.mpg
>> silence-detect has generated cutlist: 1-4466,20558-26041,46379-,
>> silect_detect() set CUTLIST to 1-4466,20558-26041,46379-,
>> /usr/bin/mythcommflag run with [--setcutlist
>> 1-4466,20558-26041,46379-, -f
>> /media/disk/mythtv/recordings/13106_20110129052800.mpg] at Mon Jan 31
>> 15:14:56 GMT
>> 2011 by mythtv
>> running mythcommflag.orig --setcutlist 1-4466,20558-26041,46379-, -f
>> /media/disk/mythtv/recordings/13106_20110129052800.mpg
>> mythcommflag failed; returned 134
>
> Odd. That's what the original silence-detect.sh script does as mythcommflag
> --setcutlist used to be able to accept a trailing - as meaning 'cut to the
> end'. I specifically added code to get the frame count from
> mytharchivehelper.
>
> Add
>
> echo >>$LOGFILE "Total Frames = $FRAMES"
>
> between the lines reading
>
> let FRAMES=...
>
> and
>
> # From <http://www...
>
> and try again. Which version of MythTV are you using?
>
>> Most of my recordings are timed to end 2mins after the scheduled
>> programme end time, so most end within a commercial break - and I
>> guess that's why I'm seeing
>> the problem.
>
> I don't think that should cause a problem, but I think I use a post-roll of
> 5 minutes instead.
>
>> Any thoughts or suggestions?
>> George
>
> HTH,
> Alex
>

Maybe related to the presence or absenco of Mike Dean's recent patch 
referenced here:

http://code.mythtv.org/trac/ticket/9389#comment:9

John P