[mythtv-users] commercial detection causing backend to stop

[James L. Paul]

On Monday 23 August 2004 08:17, James Armstrong wrote:
> Is there any 'Exits' in the commercial detection code that will cause
> the backend to exit when an error is returned? I was asking because it
> looks like I had a recording with some loss of signal in the HDTV stream
> that was causing the commercial detection code to return errors
> (mpeg2video errors in the log). Every time this would happen the backend
> process would disappear and I would have to restart it. I finally got it
> stable be deleting the recording.
>
> - James

I don't have an answer, but I have the same problem. In the past month I've 
had the backend die a half dozen times or so. When I restart it, it dies 
again after starting commercial flagging. If I delete the program being 
flagged or turn off commercial detection, it stops dying.