[mythtv-users] Comercials not getting flaged

[stan]

On Sun, Mar 14, 2004 at 02:26:07PM -0500, Chris Pinkham wrote:
> > I've built a proof of concept machine based upon KnoppMYTH V4, and
> > a simple WinTV card. On this machine comercial flaging works like
> > a charm.
> > 
> > Now, I'm building my "production" machine. It's based upon KnoppMYTH
> > V4R2, and ahs a PVR-350, and a PVR-250 capture card. I have pretty
> > much the same settings for comrecail flaging on this machine, but no
> > comercial flaging ever gets done.
> > 
> > Is this beacuse of the different capture cards? Can I make this work
> > somehow?
> 
> Sounds like you might not have Auto Commercial Flagging turned on.  With
> the "simple WinTV" card, blank frame detection is also done during the
> recording process and it used for simple commercial detection, but the
> Auto Commercial Flagging is required if you're using a hardware encoder
> card like the PVR 250/350.  With the auto flagging, a flagging thread is
> fired off when a recording finishes and tries to detect and flag the
> commercials.
> 

You are talking about the "Automaticly Falg Comercials" checkbox under
Settings -> Tv -> Playback from Mythfrotnend, right? It's checked, and
the method is set to Blank Frame + Scene Change. On the samesettings
pafe I have checked "strict comercial detection", and Skip blank
frames after comercials. I have autmaticly skip comercials set to "Off"
and The "Skip Unflaged Comercials" checkbox is not checked.

Does this all sound right?

Is the starting of this therad loged somewhere, that I cna check to
see if it's starting? I'm pretty certain it is on the "proof of
concept" box, because I notice that mythtbackend uses up a good bit of
CPU after a recordign is finished. I don't recall having seen this
on the "production" machien, but I could have missed it.

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