[mythtv-users] mythcommflag errors

[Stephen Worthington]

On Mon, 19 Nov 2018 14:27:20 +0000 (UTC), you wrote:

>How do I solve this error?  I seem to get it all of the time.
>mythcommflag --loglevel debug -v commflag -f /mnt/raid/mythtv/5504_20181119020000.ts
>2018-11-19 09:08:30.579305 C  mythcommflag version: fixes/29 [v29.1-30-g2a0dadb] www.mythtv.org
>2018-11-19 09:08:30.579337 C  Qt version: compile: 5.5.1, runtime: 5.5.1
>MythTV Commercial Flagger, flagging commercials for:
>    NCIS: Los Angeles - The Patton Project                                                                                                                                              
> 2018-11-19 09:21:14.589234 E  decoding error                        eno: Unknown error 541478725 (541478725)
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>Is there a different command line that I can use to collect better error/debug messages?
>Thanks,Mike

In my experience, before I stopped using mythcommflag, the usual cause
of errors like that is the file actually having an error in it.  The
recording has a problem at that point, usually due to a transmission
or reception problem.  If you watch that recording, does it have any
visual or audible glitches in it?  Does processing the file using
ffmpeg report any errors?  You can use a command like this to test a
file with ffmpeg:

 ffmpeg -i 1012_20181119082900.ts -acodec copy -vcodec copy
/tmp/1012_20181119082900.ts

If you are getting lots of recordings that are giving errors like
that, is there a pattern to them?  Are they from one source only?  Is
it one tuner that is causing the problem?  An aerial problem?