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

[Douglas Peale]

On 11/10/2010 12:50 PM, Douglas Peale wrote:
> On 11/10/2010 12:25 PM, Greg wrote:
>> 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.
> 
>>>
>> 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..
> 
> I've already been watching CPU usage, it is almost always near zero on all CPUs.


Looks like this problem is with the cable company

http://www.avsforum.com/avs-vb/showthread.php?p=19484906#post19484906
(see post #13412 and after)

For some reason avsforum did not claim there were new posts in this thread until today, so I did not see it until today.