[mythtv-users] Don't understand Job Queue

[Alan Chandler]

On 10/05/12 21:55, Joseph Fry wrote:
>
>     I have been running 0.24 of mythtv-backend on my Debian stable
>     system, from the precompiled packages.  In order to get a matching
>     front end (Debian Unstable which has 0.25) I removed all the
>     precompiled packages and compiled from source.
>
>     I seem to have a working system.
>
>     Something I have never understood until preparing to write this
>     email is what Flag Adverts does (I am only beginning to understand).
>
>     Now that I just compiled and installed the backend from scratch, I
>     want to make it work
>
>     In the early hours of this morning I recorded a program.  It
>     started recording at 12:10AM.  Now (at 8:50PM) I am looking at the
>     myweb display of the backend status, and it shows the Job Queue.
>      Sitting in that Queue is the program that I recorded, with a
>     "Flag Adverts" tacked on to the end. If I mouse over the job it
>     shows me that its status is Queued, and the Status Time is 1:50AM
>     (which makes sense, since the program was 1 hour 40 minutes long.
>
>     What causes it to move from the status queued, to something else.
>      Do I need a cron job?
>
>
> No cron job needed... just need to make sure you have a window defined 
> in which your system can process the jobs queue.  Look through your 
> settings on the frontend.  I believe the default is 24hrs/day but if 
> it's still sitting there queued, then perhaps you changed it?
>
>
I think I sussed it.  I needed to run mythtv-setup and allow the backend 
to run these jobs.  Before it wasn't allowed.  Now I have mythtv-backend 
running again, I can see the jobs are actually running.


-- 
Alan Chandler
http://www.chandlerfamily.org.uk

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