My setup is in my sig below.
Running Knoppmyth R5A16

I noticed that I can't seem to be able to disable commercial skipping. I have it configured to skip by default in mythfrontend setup (screens of my config here:
http://www.ph.utexas.edu/~daneel/wierdness.html
)

However, I then start watching a recording, then goto the OSD menu to set the commercial skip to OFF (to counter a false positive made by mythcommflag) but mythtv skips the commercial anyways (even after restarting the backend and the mysql server). I disabled the commercial skipping altigether in mythfrontend setup but the commercials skip anyways.

I saw nothing that could be related to this problem in mythbackend logs ( The latest unrotated log is posted at:
http://www.ph.utexas.edu/~daneel/mythbackend.log
)

Wondering if this could be a problem with the database or something. This problem occurs both in the local frontend from the tv and remotely from another compu in the lan

I'd be real grateful for some guidance on how to analyse this problem (I dunno any sql, but I can connect to the database via gui or shell and follow instructions and stuff)

I did mess with mysql a bit before this started to happen:

I got rid of some unsecure system users named "Debian-system" or something in mysql using mysql-administrator GUI

I also had to change the user in /etc/mysql/debian.cnf from that "Debian-system" to "mythtv" with the password for mythtv

I had to grant SHUTDOWN privilege to user mythtv (followed a howto in mysql's website for that) bcause the system user (presumably) was shutting down mysql and had that privilege and now mythtv user needs the same privilege else it shuts down mysql by killing te pid and I've read that that can damage mysql tables or something so...)


could any of the above have caused this problem with commercials? I can't see how they could be related. I checked the database tables for corruptions but didn't get any.

I'd appreciate some help.

Thanks,
AR

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My knoppmyth system:
P-III 850 MHz
256 Mb RAM
Hauppauge PVR-350 connected to tv via tv-out
Hauppauge PVR-150 in another PCI slot
using ivtv version 0.8.2 in Knoppmyth R5E50
PVR is both frontend and backend

What does this show?

Oh, and did you convert the commercial markup to a real cutlist (which is always honored)?

Thanks for your reply. I changed the root login to the non-default "mysqlroot" and have set a password, so I had to enter (click on pastebin):

http://pastebin.ca/35118




I think I may have. That could be it. I'll check with a new recording.

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My knoppmyth system:
P-III 850 MHz
256 Mb RAM
Hauppauge PVR-350 connected to tv via tv-out
Hauppauge PVR-150 in another PCI slot
using ivtv version 0.8.2 in Knoppmyth R5E50
PVR is both frontend and backend

erm, That was it. My cutlist was still loaded in the recording as you pointed out. I tried to disable commskip on a fresh recording and it worked fine, heh!


I'll look at the mythtv docs to find out if there is a key to unload a cutlist and bind it to a button in my remote. Shuld work.

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My knoppmyth system:
P-III 850 MHz
256 Mb RAM
Hauppauge PVR-350 connected to tv via tv-out
Hauppauge PVR-150 in another PCI slot
using ivtv version 0.8.2 in Knoppmyth R5E50
PVR is both frontend and backend

Well, that pretty much explains it. Those values should be 0 if it's disabled. Running this bit of SQL should fix that:

The key is "c" for clear I think... See this page: http://www.knoppmythwiki.org/index.php?page=HowToUseMyth

Both c & q work. Thanks for clearing this up. I lookedin the "mythtv-keys" page on my mythweb setup

AR

_________________
My knoppmyth system:
P-III 850 MHz
256 Mb RAM
Hauppauge PVR-350 connected to tv via tv-out
Hauppauge PVR-150 in another PCI slot
using ivtv version 0.8.2 in Knoppmyth R5E50
PVR is both frontend and backend