[mythtv-users] Commercials are never detected

[George Mari]

> From: beww at beww.org
> To: lynx44 at u.washington.edu; mythtv-users at mythtv.org
> Date: Sat, 3 May 2008 18:33:58 -0600
> Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] Commercials are never detected
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> On May 3, 2008, at 6:26 PM, Matt Clifton wrote:I'm running .21 and none of the commercials in any of my shows are ever detected. Back when I was running 20.2 it worked great. When I look at MythWeb it appears that the job was ran and completed fine. I have "All Available Methods" selected and "Strict Commercial Detection" turned off. Out of probably the 50 shows I've recorded so far not one has had a single commercial detected. I tried searching on Google and on this list but I couldn't find anyone with a similar problem. Any ideas?
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> Are they not being detected or are they not being skipped when played back, even though they were detected.
> When you go into edit mode, do you see breaks marked on the timeline?
> Have you tried turning strict detection on?
> beww
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> Matt Clifton wrote:
> They aren't being detected at all. Shows that were flagged before I started having this problem still skip commercials fine. Oddly, when I hit "z" when playing back a problem recording it says "Not flagged" although when highlighting the show in the recordings section, it has the icon that shows it has been flagged. In mythweb after the the flagging job has run it always says "0 commercial breaks found." I have not tried turning on "Strict Commercial Detection" because I'm under the impression that it typically would find less commercials when thats on (if the flagging was working in the first place). I can try turning it on if that might make a difference.
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1. Make sure your database is not corrupt.  Run mysqlcheck against it.
2. Try running mythcommflag from the command line with a verbose 
debugging level against one of your problem recordings, and see what 
it's complaining about.