[mythtv-users] Skipping adverts in UK using DVB-T - supported ?

Christopher McEwan christopher.mcewan at gmail.com
Mon Jan 17 06:49:50 EST 2005


On Mon, 17 Jan 2005 21:43:53 +1100, Phill Edwards
<philledwards at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > I've failed to get ad-detection to work with DVB-T in the UK. I don't
> > > know why, I wouldn't have thought the mechanism that creates the nuv
> > > file would really matter that much ? ..ho-hum
> >
> > It's nothing to do with DVB-T though, the ad detection just isn't
> > clever enough at the moment to find most adverts on UK TV it seems.
> >
> > It does find some, but not all. It also finds things which aren't
> > ads at all so you have to be careful.
> 
> The ad detection doesn't really work in Australlia on Free To air
> analogue TV either, but I thought I saw something about there being an
> improvement in CVS a few weeks ago.
> 
> Regards,
> Phill
> 
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I would hazard a guess that my setup correctly detects ads about 10%
of the time. Im using DVB-T in the UK also with 0.16.

Hopefully there will be some improvements in the commercial detection
code, until then its not a big deal to just FF ;)
 

-- 
Regards,


~CM


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