[mythtv-users] Commercial skipping

[mooshie]

On Mon, 2006-06-26 at 11:05 -0700, Daniel A Segel wrote:
> Nathan Smith wrote:
> > On Sun, 25 Jun 2006, Robert Tsai wrote:
> >
> >   
> >> On Sun, Jun 25, 2006 at 08:00:39PM -0400, mooshie wrote:
> >>     
> >>> That makes sense, although Myth does not flag any of the commercials
> >>> at all, so it makes me think that it is a configuration problem.
> >>> I've spent a few hours going through the menu setup to make sure
> >>> that all commercial settings are ON (the "Automatically flag
> >>> commercials" setting is on, as with "All" for commercial detection,
> >>> along with the ) but no luck (I've tried to record a few different
> >>> shows on a few different channels as well).
> >>>       
> >> Try running the mythbackend with "-v commflag" and see if there is any
> >> evidence of the commercial flagger even running.
> >>     
> >
> > I did that, and when commercials started playing on the frontened, nothing
> > showed up on the backend (nothing showed up after recording as well.) Does
> > this mean it is most likely a configuration issue?
> >   
> Do you have your preferences set to start commercial flagging as soon as 
> the show starts, or to wait until it is finished recording? 

Hmm, I can't find that option anywhere in the settings. I've gone into
mysql, and in the settings table I've searched for "comm", and can't
find anything to that effect either.. where did you see this?

I ran mythbackend with -v commflag, but when I started recording,
mythbackend didn't output any commercial flagging information, and
commercials were not flagged at all. 

Also, ps'ing did not find mythcommflag, so I guess it isn't being run at
all.. which is weird, since my settings indicate (afaik) that it should
be running.

mythcommflag does work, if I run it by itself, and the commercial
flagging works fairly well -- perfect in some cases. So I'm completely
at a loss here. Any ideas?

Nate