[mythtv] [mythtv-commits] Ticket #8522: Include only half the blank frames between commercial breaks

[Chris Pinkham]

* On Mon Sep 13, 2010 at 10:14:12AM -0700, Jim Stichnoth wrote:
> I'm not sure exactly how the (let's say) 10-second upper bound should
> be applied.  Suppose the commflagger analyzes a recording like this:
> 
> 0:00:00 Start of program segment
> 0:10:00 End of program segment, start of blank interval
> 0:11:00 End of blank interval, start of commercial
> 0:15:00 End of commercial, start of blank interval
> 0:16:00 End of blank interval, start of program segment
> 0:30:00 End of program segment
> 
> Using the 1/2 blank interval, the commflagger would set a commercial
> break from 0:10:30 through 0:15:30.  What is the intention if the

With the 10-second max, I'd say the commercial break would be flagged as:

0:10:10-0:15:50

So we include 10 seconds at the beginning of the blank space that starts
the commercial break and 10 seconds a the end of the blank space that ends
the commercial break.

> I'm happy to update the #8522 patch to eliminate the setting and use a
> single approach.  But first I'd like another 2-3 weeks to test, since
> the Fall TV season is about to hit full-force, and the summer TV
> season didn't really allow for adequate testing.

Sure, take your time.  Unfortunately we got at this a little too late for
a feature freeze, and I can't justify this as a bug fix, so it will have
to wait until after 0.24 is released in a few weeks.  Thanks for looking
into this and for being accomodating.

--
Chris