[mythtv-users] Consistent problem with mythcommflag

[Stephen Worthington]

On Wed, 3 Aug 2022 15:55:38 -0500, you wrote:

>I am seeing a consistent problem where mythcommflag will fail on a
>recording with the following error:
>
>mythcommflag[518502]: E Decoder mythplayer.cpp:3366 (DecoderGetFrame)
>Player(0): Decoder timed out waiting for free video buffers.
>
>This happens daily on a particular show. It happens occasionally to other
>recordings, but it always happens to an hour long 1080 HD recording that's
>an afternoon Mon - Friday show.
>
>Other than that recording happening, no other activity is going on... I am
>generally not watching another channel or another recording at the time.
>
>My backend PC has 16 G of ram, and although it's also my main frontend and
>the frontend is usually running, it's just showing the menu.
>
>This is a recent problem, but I think it  began showing up a couple months
>ago.
>
>Anyway to address the lack of free video buffers??
>
>Thanks,
>
>
>-- George

If you run mythcommflag again with the same options after the
recording has completed, does it fail again?

To find out for sure what options are used on mythcommflag, just run
this command while it is running:

ps -ef | grep mythcommflag