[mythtv-users] user jobs vs the built-in kind

[Michael Stucky]

On Sat, Nov 22, 2014 at 12:23 PM, Hika van den Hoven <hikavdh at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hoi George,
>
> Saturday, November 22, 2014, 5:58:04 PM, you wrote:
>
> > Hi,
>
> > I have a long-running user job and have noticed that the frontend
> > doesn’t give any indication that a recording has an active job. With
> > commflagging and transcoding I get the little spinning marker next
> > to its name (I’m using Blue Abstract for the theme) but for user
> > jobs I have to go the the system status -> jobs menu.
>
> > Also problematic is how the backend doesn’t seem to check for
> > running user jobs when deciding if it’s safe to shut down. They do
> > get restarted the next time the machine comes up but it would be
> > good to have them run all the way through the first time.
>
> > Is this behaviour intentional or an oversight? And, would a patch to
> change it be committed?
>
> > For extra bonus points: every so often I read the four job limit is
> > going to be lifted from myth, what’s the status of that? It would
> > make an awfully nice Christmas present ;)
>
> > - George
>
> > _______________________________________________
>
> I have been looking at this too. I have noticed that if you run the
> build-in perl scripts they update the jobqueue status if you start
> them with %JOBID% and the right verbosity rather then with %FILE%.
> This is the status you get when you hold your mouse over the active
> job in mythweb status. I'm still looking on how to use this for my own
> scripts. It would be nice to get a progress on my transcoding in stead
> of just "running". I guess you have to regularly update the jobqueue
> and maybe set some status indicator through the html interface. Maybe
> this would also help with what you want.
> Anybody knowing more on how this should work?
>
>
> Tot mails,
>   Hika                            mailto:hikavdh at gmail.com
>
> "Zonder hoop kun je niet leven
> Zonder leven is er geen hoop
> Het eeuwige dilemma
> Zeker als je hoop moet vernietigen om te kunnen overleven!"
>
> De lerende Mens
>
>
> Take a look at Raymond Wagner's mythvidexport script,
https://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Mythvidexport.py. I use this to move recordings
to my video library and I know it shows status when you mouse over the job
in mythweb status.
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