Tuesday, June 22, 2004
A minor complaint about commercial flagging.
One great advantage of MythTV over commercially-available PVRs is that MythTV empowers the user to skip commercials "auto-magically." In normal practice, programs are "flagged" for commercial transitions (such as black screens leading into and out of commercials) immediately after recording. Such skipping can automatically reduce a 30 minute-sitcom to 20 minutes of viewing or less.
However, when I upgraded to MythTV 0.15.1, the mythbackend program tried to assign commercials to most of my previous recordings. At the same time. All at once. Load factors soared into the low 20's on my single processor machine. For now, the fix is to turn off commercial flagging - later fixes may include protecting the bulk of my previous shows from being reflagged by changing permissions. Or finally cleaning up my drive of shows I don't want to watch, either would work.
However, when I upgraded to MythTV 0.15.1, the mythbackend program tried to assign commercials to most of my previous recordings. At the same time. All at once. Load factors soared into the low 20's on my single processor machine. For now, the fix is to turn off commercial flagging - later fixes may include protecting the bulk of my previous shows from being reflagged by changing permissions. Or finally cleaning up my drive of shows I don't want to watch, either would work.
