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

[Curtis Stanford]

On Mar 28, 2005, at 10:25 AM, Andrew Close wrote:

> On Mon, 28 Mar 2005 09:54:45 -0700, SpikeyGG <spikeygg at hotmail.com> 
> wrote:
>>
>> All,
>>
>> Thank you for all your responses!
>
> <snip>
>
>> can get it working better.  Other than that I'm stumped!  All the 
>> shows I
>> have recorded (Simpsons, American Idol, Saturday Night Live, The 
>> Smurfs)
>> have all had issues with getting an acurate break, they are all at 
>> least 20
>> seconds off the target.
>
> Greg,  i think it probably has a lot to do with the shows you're
> recording/watching: American Idol, the smurfs (!?!?!)...  i'm pretty
> sure the developers put clauses in the code that screws up commercial
> detection for shows such as these. ;)
>
> actually it does appear to depend on what shows are being recorded.
> some work better than others partially because those are the shows
> that the devs watch and test on regularly.  others work well because
> they conform to some sort of standards, if there is any such beast.
> you may have to bribe one of the devs to spend some time with American
> Idol to determine if the show/network is doing something goofy
> before/during/after a commercial break...
>

I still say this worked better before. I'm recording the same shows I 
used to from the same source and the commercial detection is worse than 
it was when ALL was first introduced.