[mythtv-users] silence detection blocks jobqueue [ mythcommflag; silence.py ]

[Mark Perkins]

> On 18 Oct 2014, at 10:10 pm, "Stefan Pappalardo" <stefan.pappalardo at gmx.de> wrote:
> 
> For some recordings the silence detection does not really start and never ends => jobqueue is blocked!
> 
> Here is a snipped from the mythcommflag.log:
> 
>   Oct 16 17:25:26 obelix silence.py[10378]: mythcommflag: Starting job 14065
>   Oct 16 17:25:26 obelix silence.py[10378]: mythcommflag: Seeking chanid 1043, starttime 2014-10-15 14:50:00+02:00
>   Oct 16 17:25:26 obelix silence.py[10378]: mythcommflag: Processing: Cinema24, 2014-10-15 14:50:00+02:00, "Keinohrhase und Zweiohrküken - Komödie"
>   Oct 16 17:25:26 obelix silence.py[10378]: mythcommflag: Using preset file "/home/mythtv/.mythtv/silence.preset"
>   Oct 16 17:25:26 obelix silence.py[10378]: mythcommflag: No preset found for "Keinohrhase und Zweiohrküken" or "Cinema24"
>   Oct 16 17:25:26 obelix silence.py[10378]: mythcommflag: Threshold=-75.0, MinQuiet=0.16, MinDetect=6.0, MinLength=120.0, MaxSep=120.0, Pad=0.48
>   Oct 16 17:25:26 obelix silence.py[10378]: mythcommflag: Frame rate is 25.00, Detecting silences below 381883 that last for at least 4 frames
>   Oct 16 17:25:26 obelix silence.py[10378]: mythcommflag: Clusters are composed of a minimum of 6 silences closer than 3000 frames and must be
>   Oct 16 17:25:26 obelix silence.py[10378]: mythcommflag: longer than 3000 frames in total. Cuts will be padded by 12 frames
>   Oct 16 17:25:26 obelix silence.py[10378]: mythcommflag: < preroll, > postroll, - advert, ? too few silences, # too short, = comm flagged
>   Oct 16 17:25:26 obelix silence.py[10378]: mythcommflag:            Start - End    Start - End      Duration         Interval    Level/Count
>   Oct 16 17:25:26 obelix silence.py[10378]: mythcommflag:           frame - frame (mmm:ss-mmm:ss) frame (mm:ss.s)  frame (mmm:ss)
> 
> Afer a few minutes of blocking the jobque I killed the lowest childprocess and the log gets a finished line:
> 
>   Oct 16 17:27:05 obelix silence.py[10378]: mythcommflag: Detected 0 adverts.
> 
> Here is the commandline for the job:
> 
>   /usr/local/bin/silence.py %JOBID% --chanid %CHANID% --starttime %STARTTIME% --loglevel debug --nodblog --syslog local7 --presetfile ~/.mythtv/silence.preset
> 
> 
> I'm using mythbuntu 14.04 with mythtv 0.27 and the latest silence.py (from http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Commercial_detection_with_silences)
> 
> Has anyone an idea how to solve the problem?
> thx
> -- 
> Stefan Pappalardo
> _______________________________________________
> 

IIRC the backend log will have the command line used to trigger the silence detection. Copy it into a terminal window and run it there, maybe with a --verbose on the end and see what happens then (working from memory here). Otherwise just drop the jobid and lookup the chanid / starttime of the recording and use the command line you used above.

Don't think you should be using jobid and chanid and starttime, should be jobid or (chanid and starttime) but I assume the script will just use one and ignore the rest.