[mythtv-users] Commercial flagging not working after transcoding with a user job

Jeremy Jones jeremy.dwain.jones at gmail.com
Sat Sep 3 05:25:30 UTC 2011


On Sep 3, 2011 12:14 AM, "Jeremy Jones" <jeremy.dwain.jones at gmail.com>
wrote:
>
>
> On Fri, Sep 2, 2011 at 10:49 PM, Jeremy Jones <jjones at almonassociates.com>
wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> > On Fri, Sep 2, 2011 at 2:16 AM, Michael T. Dean <mtdean at thirdcontact.com>
wrote:
> >>
> >> On 09/01/2011 11:29 PM, Jeremy Jones wrote:
> >> >
> >> > I am running 0.24-fixes from mythbuntu.  I have my backend set to
auto
> >> > flag commercials and then to run a user job that uses the transcode
> >> > wrapper stub posted on the wiki.   The commercial flagging was
working
> >> > before I set up the user job for transcoding, but now it does not.  I
> >> > know nothing about how the flags are stored, so I'm sure I did
> >> > something to cause this.
> >> >
> >> > I had thought that the commercial flags were stored independent of
the
> >> > file, so I expected them to still be there. Is that wrong?
> >> >
> >>
> >> But the flags are dependent on the byte position of frames within the
> >> file--so when you transcode the file and change the file size and frame
> >> distribution...
> >>
> >> > Do I need to run the commercial flagging after transcoding instead?
> >> >
> >>
> >> Yes.  There's a setting in mythtv-setup, "Run transcode jobs before
auto
> >> commercial detection," and if you set it to true/enabled, commercial
> >> detection will run after the transcode completes.
> >>
> >> Mike
> >>
> >>
>
> Thanks again Mike you have really helped this newbie get his first box
running.
>
> After re-looking at

Thwarting?

That easily supposed to be 'the'.

backend settings, I already have it set to run transcoding jobs first. I
checked the backend logs and the commercial detection is running first
anyway, so I assume that setting just does not apply if you are transcoding
with a user job.  Is that correct?
>
> I assume I need to add a second user job to run the commercial flagging
afterwards.
>
> Does that sound like I'm on the right track?
>
> Thanks again for the help.
>
> Jeremy
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