Hi there - I currently am running Channels DVR on a windows 10 PC. I recently saw the DVR works on the Raspberry Pi 4 so I'm working to get that setup as the DVR server to remove the burden from the windows PC.
Does anyone have experience to share on how quickly the commercial detection works on the Raspberry PI 4? Any resource/speed concerns? Just curious before I work to fully get the rpi4 server setup.
nudge - any thoughts from folks here? is anyone using the rpi4 as a server? liking it? concerns?
I have it and like it; see this link for more info. Commercial detection runs about 7-8min/hr for over-the-air MPEG source data, and about twice as slowly for TVE H264 files (not sure why, there). COMSKIP works on a single thread leaving plenty of other resources.
Also, with recent beta builds, hardware acceleration is enabled and it can transcode and stream 720p and 1080i with fairly low loads (<150%).
Awesome thanks. Curious, how do I access beta builds once I get the rpi4 up and running?
The RPI changes are in the stable build, so no beta necessary.
To update to beta you would click-and-hold the Check for Update button.
Thanks all. One other question. I noticed that since I got my rpi4 up and running, none of my new recordings have commercials detected. When I click edit commercials on that recording in the server website, I get "Error retrieving commercial details".
Appreciate any help to debug this further.
What does the log say about commercial detection?
Looks like some kind of seg fault? Here's a snippet:
2019/12/07 08:00:00 [DVR] Finished job 1575702000-43 American Ninja Warrior
2019/12/07 08:00:00 [DVR] Waiting 4h24m59.433907709s until next job 1575721500-49 Premier League Soccer
2019/12/07 08:00:00 [DVR] Processing file-1282: TV/American Ninja Warrior/American Ninja Warrior 2019-12-07-0700.mpg
2019/12/07 08:00:01 [DVR] Running commercial detection on file 1282 (TV/American Ninja Warrior/American Ninja Warrior 2019-12-07-0700.mpg)
2019/12/07 08:00:01 [DVR] Commercial detection failed with signal: segmentation fault
Are you running raspbian or something else?
Might be worth doing a sudo rpi-update
It's raspbian - it's Linux Raspbian 10.2 (kernel: 4.19.75-v7l+) .
I just ran the rpi-update and rebooted - is there something I need to do to re-initiate commercial skipping detection for all recordings? Or do I have to do something one recording at a time?
A new build is available with a button to "Redetect Commercials" for a recording.
awesome - just upgraded to v2019.12.09.2122 and clicked the Redetect Commercials option - looks like it worked on one recording. But then I run it on a 2nd recording and I get the following error:
2019/12/09 22:21:28 [DVR] Running commercial detection on file 1281 (TV/Stumptown/Stumptown S01E08 The Other Woman 2019-12-05-0300.mpg)
2019/12/09 22:21:34 [DVR] Commercial detection failed with exit status 255
also - when I force redecting of commercials on another show, I'm now getting the error below - thoughts on this plus my previous post? It seems to be episode dependent for some reason (some work fine, others not)
2019/12/10 14:57:45 [DVR] Running commercial detection on file 1279 (TV\American Ninja Warrior\American Ninja Warrior 2019-12-01-2100.mpg)
2019/12/10 14:57:45 [DVR] Commercial detection failed with open /mnt/nfsdvr/recordings/Logs/comskip/1279/comskip.ini: permission denied
Sounds like some of the permissions on your (NFS?) directory are wrong.
I use an NFS mount (to a Synology NAS). How do I know if the permissions are wrong? What should they be? Here's some ls -al outputs.
Highest level recordings folder:
drwxrwxrwx 8 1024 users 4096 Dec 4 20:29 recordings
And here's of the /mnt/nfsdvr/recordings/Logs/comskip/1279 folder where this specific error is coming from (note: that's a folder that channels DVR auto-created - is the auto creation of folders not setting permissions correctly? Or do I need to look into something on my end?):
drwx------ 2 1025 users 4096 Dec 4 21:19 1279
One directory is owned by user 1024 and the other by user 1025
They should all be owned by the user that's running the dvr.
OK - I'll look into that. And did something change on Dec 9/10 with the newer version? For the shows that I forced a redetect, it looks like those folders are owned by yet a different user (my default pi user).
drwx------ 2 1025 users 4096 Dec 4 21:19 1279
drwxrwxrwx 2 pi pi 4096 Dec 9 17:21 1281
drwxrwxrwx 2 pi pi 12288 Dec 10 09:58 1282
EDIT: I think I know the issue - when I setup my rpi4 server, I copied over some TV/Movie files as well as Log files from my older server. I guess doing that used a different user... but looks like channels DVR auto creates folders using my "pi" user. I'll see if I can change folder ownership and hopefully that will fix things
You can run:
sudo chown -R pi /mnt/nfsdvr/recordings
Yep - all set! Thanks
rpi-update warns that it will install a prerelease version of the kernel and shouldn't generally be run. Is there a chance that there will be a fix in the commercial detection tool on the channels-dvr side, so that users can avoid prerelease kernels?