[mythtv-users] mythcommflag not working

Michael T. Dean mtdean at thirdcontact.com
Mon Sep 8 16:51:27 UTC 2014


On 09/08/2014 12:26 PM, Rob Owens wrote:
> I've been having a problem with mythcommflag not working.  Upgrading to
> 0.27.3 did not fix it.  I'm seeing tons of these messages in
> mythcommflag.log:
>
> mythcommflag[888]: E Decoder avformatdecoder.cpp:4891 (GetFrame) decoding error
>        eno: Unknown error 541478725 (541478725)
>
> Can anybody suggest further debugging steps?

Looks like corrupt recordings and/or recordings in a format that ffmpeg 
libs don't handle well--though corrupt recordings is more likely.  Could 
be due to antenna misalignment/breakage (due to wind/wear/gravity/...) 
or even just changes by your broadcaster which require a rescan.

Mike


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