[mythtv] "ClassicComm" detector vs "Comm2" detector

Jos Hoekstra joshoekstra at gmx.net
Thu Nov 13 13:11:15 UTC 2008


Eduard Huguet schreef op 9-11-2008 15:53:
>     Can the same setting be made in de DB or is it hardcoded? I wouldn't
>     mind setting this to 10 minutes to skip a complete commercial
>     instead of having to manually skip the last 1,5 minute of a commercial.
> 
>     Kind regards,
> 
>     Jos Hoekstra
> 
> 
> It's a DB setting, sorry if I didn't explain it very well :D
> You can tune this value by connecting to your MythTV database and typing:
> 
>   insert into settings values ('CommDetectMaxCommBreakLength', '600', 
> '<hostname>');
> 
> Replace <hostname> by your real hostname name, obviously ;).
> 
> Regards,
>   Eduard

I upped it to 600 and now on some channels the commercials get detected 
quite a lot better because commercial length is around 7:30. Other 
channels are still about the same.

Thanks,

Jos Hoekstra


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