[mythtv-users] Flag commercials on recordings with corruption?

[Phil Bridges]

On 10/8/07, Mike Dent <mcdent at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
> Whilst running 0.20 myth and flagging commercials I often noticed the box became
> very unresponsive and a high load. Looking at the process list I used to see
> several mythcommflag processes taking all CPU. When I looked at these
> recordings they were all ones which had been recorded on some of the
> weaker channels, with corruption and artifacts. So I turned off
> commercial flagging and forgot about it.
> Now I have upgraded to 0.20-0.2ubuntu2 packages (think thats correct)
> I'm wondering
> if the commercial flagging is any more tolerent to these weaker channels?
>
> If not can I disable the flagging on some channels?
>

You can mark channels commercial-free in mythtv-setup.

Also, you can limit the number of user jobs that occur at any one point in time.