[mythtv-users] Commercial Detection during recording

[Michael T. Dean]

On 03/11/2013 05:00 PM, Joseph Fry wrote:
>
> Mike, CPU is certainly the greatest resource used by comflagging 
> itself... but there is an IO component to it... and if the IO is 
> already nearly saturated with concurrent recordings and playback... 
> comflagging may contribute to playback/recording issues.
>
> Preferring comflagging on current recordings over a FIFO queue 
> achieves 2 advantages:
> 1. reduction in IO due to caching
> 2. higher priority recordings can be comflagged before lower priority, 
> completed recordings.
>
> For example, lets say that one night I record six 1 hour shows, 2 at a 
> time for 3 hours.  Assume I only have one comflag job defined and my 
> CPU is just barely fast enough to run realtime.  In this case, when my 
> favorite show airs in the 3rd hour of recordings, there will be 2 
> hours of shows left in the queue before it will get flagged.
>
> This happens to me all the time... there are only a few shows that I 
> want to watch right away... mostly so friends/coworkers don't spoil 
> them for me the next day, and they are almost never transcoded when I 
> watch them because the queue is full of stuff that recorded earlier in 
> the evening.
>

See the link I quoted. It says that there's work being done...

Mike