Comskip Support Forum

I assume you aren't using SageTV? If so, I'd direct you to Sage Job Queue (SJQ), since you can use rules for when and what gets processed.

I certainly can understand that. I just hate having to babysit something like this. When I have a ton of shows to process and they process one and then proceed to get hung up for 8-12 hours out of the day until I can kill each process, it's frustrating. I'm all for fixing the cause of the hangs in t...

Thanks. The only issue then is that this almost always causes comskip to hang and never exit. Using SJQ, this prevents another recording from being comskipped, until I kill the task. Is there any way for comskip to keep an eye on itself and force an exit, with a return code, if a hang occurs?

If I'm understanding you, there's no way to comskip files which throw these errors? I currently have 7 files (so far) which are doing this. Just wondering if there's a workaround. Thanks.

I'm running comskip 0.80.023 via SJQ and I'm seeing quite a few instances where the thread is freezing. I'm noticing this on 3 separate computers (2 on XP and 1 on WHS). I have to kill the thread and then another show gets queued up and runs. Viewing the log for the shows via SJQ, it seems like it j...

I don't know if it matters, but I'm running this via Sage Job Queue. Anyhow, I ran my first two attempts and saw the following in the log upon the failed (according to SJQ) completion. 2009/05/01 23:55:16.473 [h264 @ 003220C0]error while decoding MB 17 0, bytestream (td) 2009/05/01 23:55:16.473 [h26...