[mythtv-users] Raspberry Pi frontend via Raspbmc - first try report

[Jon Heizer]

On Tue, Dec 11, 2012 at 10:47 AM, Karl Newman <newmank1 at asme.org> wrote:

> On Tue, Dec 11, 2012 at 2:54 AM, Brian J. Murrell <brian at interlinx.bc.ca>wrote:
>
>>
>> On the subject of commskipping inaccuracies though, it seems really odd
>> to me.  There are lots of times that the commflagger flags beyond the
>> end of the commercial break even when there is a very clear set of
>> "black frames" at the end of the break.  I suspect something fundamental
>> has gone funky in the commskipping code.  Maybe it's better on 0.26
>> (although I'm not holding my breath).  I'm still on 0.25-fixes.
>>
>
> I doubt 0.26+ has fixed anything--I haven't heard about any progress in
> that regard. commflagging got completely broken in 0.25. It used to work
> nearly perfectly in 0.24, but something changed in 0.25 and now I'm lucky
> if it catches 1 out of 5 breaks. I also had to prevent it from running
> while the recording was occurring, otherwise it errored out with an
> end-of-file, apparently some old latent race condition that has only now
> manifested itself. There is reason for hope, though. Somebody (Stuart M?)
> was collecting samples of shows from mythtv users around the world to test
> the commflagger. But that's been 6 months or so ago. I don't know what's
> going on with it now.
>
> Karl
>
> I was just happy that I could now view live TV on it.  Sucks explaining to
some one that this particular tv can only view OTA stuff.  With just the
two of us (well now 3 but she doesn't care about tv yet)  I am short
frontends since cable digital switch at which time I converted to Dish.
 This was before cable card tuners were out and I am still tempted to
switch back.  Hard to justify any more full frontends or renting more sat
boxes.  But $35... even if they are not perfect as long as they eventually
play back something I am ahead of where I was.

Jon
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