[mythtv-users] Commercial Skip

[Cory Papenfuss]

> I wrote the commercial detection code in Myth and never even use Auto-Skip.
> The current flagging code works probably 95% or more of the time on the
> main shows my wife and I watch but I still don't use Auto-Skip.  The only
> Myth auto-skips is when I create a cutlist from the commercial flagging
> markers and make sure they're right.  Part of the reason is probably that
> I like to see when it goes wrong so I can try to think of why and fix it,
> and when it does get it right, I sometimes turn to my wife and say
> "Perfect Skip!"
>
 	I started out with "auto-skip" on, and I'll agree that it's 
generally a rather large factor more irritating to try to undo a bad skip 
than to just manually skip forward.  I have noticed some issues regarding 
the fine-control of beginning/ending of a commercial block (when there are 
very short commercial snippets).  In general, it works very well.... great 
as a 90% correct start for manually adjusting cutpoints.  Now, if only 
lossless MPEG2 cutting worked so "Cutting" wasn't synonymous with 
"Transcode to MPEG4"... :)

-Cory

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* Cory Papenfuss                                                        *
* Electrical Engineering candidate Ph.D. graduate student               *
* Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University                   *
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