On 17 November 2014 11:41, Brian May <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hello, > > Yesterday I tried to disable commercial flagging in mythtv > 0.27.4+fixes.2014 (or at least change the default for new recordings)[1]. > > According to the documentation, e.g. > https://www.mythtv.org/wiki/User_Manual:Detailed_configuration_Frontend, > under "Setup->TV Settings->General" there should be a screen "General > (Jobs)" that has the "Commercial Flagging Method" setting. It doesn't. > > In fact a number of settings appear to be missing. > > So I went to change the setting in mythweb, only it isn't there either. > > So I looked at the mysql database, where I noticed I have duplicate > settings. > > > mysql> select * from settings where value='JobAllowCommFlag'; > +------------------+------+----------+ > | value | data | hostname | > +------------------+------+----------+ > | JobAllowCommFlag | 0 | gandra | > | JobAllowCommFlag | 0 | gandra | > +------------------+------+----------+ > 2 rows in set (0.00 sec) > > In fact just about all the Job* settings have duplicates. While they are > the same, am wondering if this is why I can't edit the values. > > mysql> select * from settings where hostname='gandra' order by value; > ... > | JobAllowCommFlag | 0 > | gandra | > | JobAllowCommFlag | 0 > | gandra | > | JobAllowMetadata | 1 > | gandra | > | JobAllowTranscode | 1 > | gandra | > | JobAllowTranscode | 1 > | gandra | > | JobAllowUserJob1 | 0 > | gandra | > | JobAllowUserJob1 | 0 > | gandra | > | JobAllowUserJob2 | 0 > | gandra | > | JobAllowUserJob2 | 0 > | gandra | > | JobAllowUserJob3 | 0 > | gandra | > | JobAllowUserJob3 | 0 > | gandra | > | JobAllowUserJob4 | 0 > | gandra | > | JobAllowUserJob4 | 0 > | gandra | > | JobQueueCheckFrequency | 60 > | gandra | > | JobQueueCheckFrequency | 60 > | gandra | > | JobQueueCPU | 0 > | gandra | > | JobQueueCPU | 0 > | gandra | > | JobQueueMaxSimultaneousJobs | 1 > | gandra | > | JobQueueMaxSimultaneousJobs | 1 > | gandra | > | JobQueueWindowEnd | 23:59 > | gandra | > | JobQueueWindowEnd | 23:59 > | gandra | > | JobQueueWindowStart | 00:00 > | gandra | > | JobQueueWindowStart | 00:00 > | gandra | > ... > > Just wondering if it is possible to delete the duplicate entries? Or do I > have to delete everything and recreate new entries? > > Unfortunately, I have shown all the fields above, there are no extra > fields, now does there appear to be a unique constraint on value,hostname > which would seem like a good idea (possibly because it is a MyISAM table - > not sure if a new installation of mythtv would have the same issue or not). > > > Thanks > > > Notes: > > [1] Sometimes mythtv hangs for large periods of time before playing a > recording or in middle of the recording, and I am working on the theory > that the commercial detection, despite being "nice", is the cause. > I found the solution: mysql> ALTER IGNORE TABLE settings ADD UNIQUE INDEX idx_unique (value,hostname); Query OK, 1024 rows affected (0.09 sec) Records: 1024 Duplicates: 20 Warnings: 0 This has been raised as a bug report against mythtv, but instead of fixing it (e.g. creating a unique index), the concerns were dismissed :-( https://code.mythtv.org/trac/ticket/9875 I can now see the settings in mythweb. -- Brian May <[email protected]>
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