[mythtv-users] Disabling automatic commercial flagging

[Stephen]

On Sun, May 30, 2004 at 10:43:40PM -0400, Chris Pinkham wrote:
> > I have the following entry in my database for disabling automatic 
> > commercial flagging:
> > 
> > INSERT INTO settings (value, data, hostname) VALUES 
> > ('AutoCommercialFlag','0',NULL);
> > 
> > However, I still get entries in the recordedmarkup table.  I'm running 
> > 0.15.  Any ideas?
> 
> Entries for what?  There are other things in that table other than
> commercial flagging info.  GOP and keyframe pointers are stored there also
> to allow quicker seeking in mpeg-2 files and in case your .nuv gets hosed
> or the recording is terminated before the seektable can be written by the
> recorder for some reason.  There also may be blank frames listed in the
> file because they are part of the detection done during recording if you
> are using software encoding.  If you have hardware encoding and auto-flagging
> turned off then there shouldn't be any commercial flagging info in the table
> for new shows, only their GOP info.

My mistake -- I thought the table was only used for marking commercials 
and didn't understand why there would be any data there if the above 
flag was turned off.  Thanks for the info,

Steve