MYTHCOMMFLAG(1)

✨ MYTHCOMMFLAG ✨

okay so bestie, welcome to mythcommflag 💅 the MythTV Commercial Flagger — she's the one who watches your recordings so you don't have to sit through the ads. literally main character energy.

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🌸 NAME 🌸

mythcommflag — MythTV Commercial Flagger. yeah that's her. that's the whole job description. iconic. 👑

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🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

bestie here's the ✨tea✨ — this is mythcommflag</> version: fixes/36, specifically:

[v36.0+fixes.20260401.1385cbfc60-0ubuntu3] www.mythtv.org

and she comes with a whole lil menu of Misc. Options to start with:

• --chanid — tell her the chanid of the recording you wanna mess with. that's the channel ID bestie, she needs it to know which thing you're talking about. 🎀
• --dry-run — the "let me just look" option. she does NOT actually queue the operation, she just lists what would be done. it's giving window shopping. no commitment, just vibes. 🙈
• -O, --override-setting — override a single setting defined by a key=value pair. one (1) setting. just one.
• --override-settings-file — point her at a whole file of key=value pairs to be loaded for setting overrides. a lil goodie bag of overrides. 🍓
• --queue — insert the flagging job into the JobQueue instead of running flagging in the foreground. so she can go do her thing in the background while you live your life. ✨
• -h, --help, --usage — display this help printout, or give you detailed info on a selected option. she's helpful like that, always. 🫶
• --version — display version information. who is she? now you know.
• --starttime — specify the start time of the recording to operate on. timing is everything bestie ⏰

🌈 Commflagging Options 🌈

• --method — the commercial flagging method[s] you wanna employ: off, blank, scene, blankscene, logo, all, d2, d2_logo, d2_blank, d2_scene, d2_all. pick your fighter. 💀
• --outputmethod — the format of output written to outputfile: essentials, full. two options, both valid, no wrong answers (well. one of them is longer).
• --rebuild — do NOT flag commercials, just rebuild the seektable. she's not ad-hunting today, she's doing repairs. glow-up era. 🧚

⭐ Advanced Options ⭐

• --force — force the operation, even if the program appears to be in use. rizz levels: unmatched. she WILL do the thing.

ngl bestie, be a lil careful with --force — it does exactly what it says, even when something else is already using that program. 💀

• --outputfile — the file to write commercial flagging output to [debug]. 💜

🎀 Logging Options 🎀

• --loglevel — set the logging level. all log messages at lower levels get discarded. in descending order: emerg, alert, crit, err, warning, notice, info, debug, trace. defaults to info. so like, the chattier the level, the more she spills. 🗣️
• --loglong — use the long log format for the console, i.e. show file, line number, etc. in the console log. receipts. fully sourced. 🔥
• --logpath — writes logging messages to a file in the directory logpath with filenames in the format: applicationName.date.pid.log. this is typically used in combination with --daemon, and if used in combination with --pidfile, this can be used with log rotators, using the HUP call to inform MythTV to reload the file.
• --noprogress — don't print progress on stdout. silent but deadly (affectionate). 🤫
• -q, --quiet — don't log to the console (-q). don't log anywhere (-q -q). bestie said shhh. two of them and she's fully off the grid. 💀
• --syslog — set the syslog logging facility. set to "none" to disable, defaults to none.
• --systemd-journal — use systemd-journal instead of syslog. modern girlie behavior. ✨
• -v, --verbose — specify log filtering. use -v help for level info. 👑

🧚 Input Options 🧚

• -f, --file — specify the file to operate on. point her at it, she'll handle the rest.
• --video — rebuild the seek table for a video (non-recording) file. not a recording? doesn't matter. seek table got rebuilt anyway. slay. 💅

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and that's the whole page bestie!! no cap, you now know mythcommflag better than most people know their own wifi password. go flag some commercials, go rebuild some seektables, be the main character of your own DVR. 🫶

mythcommflag version 36.0+fixes.202604... 💖 August 2026 💖 mwah, see you in the man pages ✨👑🎀