[mythtv] Commercial flagging during record (was
"tv_grab_uk graphical setup")
tarek Lubani
tarek at tarek.2y.net
Fri Feb 28 23:30:48 EST 2003
when has this restriction ever existed? I certainly don't hit buttons
within any 2-second frame.. sometimes I hit it in the middle of commercials
when I realize "oh yeah!"
tarek : )
>Great job Chris.
>
>One question... Does this remove the restriction of hitting the Z key within
>2 seconds of a commercial now? Seems like it should be able to. Now, if
>you hit Z anywhere within a commercial timeframe, it should just skip to the
>end and resume playback, right? We often find ourselves missing that 2
>second window on the first shot.
>
>Thanks!
>JC
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Chris Pinkham" <cpinkham at bc2va.org>
>To: <mythtv-dev at snowman.net>
>Sent: Friday, February 28, 2003 10:31 PM
>Subject: [mythtv] Commercial flagging during record (was "tv_grab_uk
>graphical setup")
>
>
> > > I think this needs to be delayed- (the Commercial detection seems more
> > > exciting than this small contribution).
> >
> > 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. Auto-skip for commercials will also use the list and
> > skips them right away. I have a message that pops up when you skip using
> > the commercial break list as well. The message shows how much time
> > was skipped in seconds.
> >
> > Other commercial detection methods will probably have to be done offline
> > unless they use as little cpu resources as the blank frame detection
> > method does during and after recording. Once the commercial breaks
> > are flagged in the database though, skips should be quick for both
> > local and remote mythfrontend players.
> >
> > Hopefully have a patch in CVS for this in a couple days.
> >
> > Chris
> >
> >
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