[mythtv] Commercial flagging during record (was "tv_grab_uk graphical setup")

Bruce Markey bjm at lvcm.com
Fri Feb 28 20:06:23 EST 2003


Chris Pinkham wrote:
...
> Tonight I've got my code modified so MythTV is flagging the blank frames
> during recording and saving the list into the database once recording is
> done.  If the user has their commercial skip method set at "Blank Frame
> Detection", then it runs a quick (4-5 seconds at most) routine to build the
> commercial break list from this blank frame list.  This commercial break
> list is read in by mythfrontend during playback and is giving me near
> instantaneous commercial break skips when I hit the 'Z' key during a
> commercial break...

Awesome! I got the sense right from the beginning that you
were absolutely determined to do this right. I expect that
down the line, this feature will be emphasized as one of the
reasons why people should use MythTV.

--  bjm



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