[mythtv-users] Corrupted recording, need help with diagnosis...

[Greg]

On 11/10/2010 01:53 PM, Douglas Peale wrote:
> On 11/10/2010 10:36 AM, Greg wrote:
>> You didn't post the specs of your machine,but looking at your log,it appears you are using commercial detection at the same time
>> as you are recording... There was a person a few weeks ago that had the same problem..I suggested turning off commercial
>> detection until the program is recorded...That solved his problem... It don't cost anything to give it a try..
> I just recently changed to allow commercial flagging at the same time as recording.
>
> Previously, commercial flagging would occur at the end of a recording, quite often starting commercial flagging of one show
> slightly after another show started recording. I was not having trouble with that set up.
>
> Commercial flagging simultaneously with recording should be less stressful because the data the commercial flagger needs should
> still be in the disk cache so it would not need to be read off the disk.
>
> I'm not saying you are wrong about the cause, but I would like to understand what is going on. To that end, I am going to leave
> the setup as is, and attempt to catch it in the act.
>
> The system is an i7 processor with 6 GB of ram and a single 1.5 TB disk. It runs both a front end and a back end, and is also my
> desktop.
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OK, Just giving you a place to look..Maybe you can monitor your cpu 
usage while recording and comm flagging,to get an idea what's going on....
  Your computer should handle it just fine...Good luck..