[mythtv-users] How well does commercial detection work?

[Chris Pinkham]

> On Mon, Mar 28, 2005 at 08:54:19AM -0600, Ramon Redondo wrote:
> > Since we're talking about consistent commercial detection problems, I
> > could also mention Jeopardy!.  Commercial detection is flawless for my
> > recordings of Jeopardy!, with the one exception being that it misses
> > the end of the commercial break before Final Jeopardy.  So my wife and
> > I have to remember to NOT skip that break, or we end up at the end of
> > the show.
> 
> Of course this is very frustrating, as you have to say "don't delete"
> then re-watch, then seek to the place you were and find the real
> programming at the end.
> 
> I suspect a better behaviour when you hit End (Skip to next commercial mark)
> if there is no next mark (or the next mark is end of program) to not seek
> at all, giving a message like the not-flagged message.   The user can
> choose to quit watching or hit "D" at that point easily enough.

It already does the first part, it did not allow skipping if you were at the end
and there were no more commercial flagging marks after your current position.

I just committed a patch to CVS to disable skipping when the last commercial
flagging marker is less than 10 seconds from the end of the recording.  It
will instead display the "At End, can not Skip" message that it normally
does when you are at the end of the recording and there are no more commercial
flagging marks after your current position.

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Chris