[mythtv-users] commercial flagging

Brad DerManouelian myth at dermanouelian.com
Tue Dec 5 02:13:00 UTC 2006


On Dec 4, 2006, at 6:07 PM, Peter Gavin wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I finally got my MythTV setup working (after weeks of hardware/ivtv
> troubleshooting) and it works great.  The only thing I'm really having
> a problem with now is commercial flagging.  mythcommflag is giving me
> a lot of false positives.  Frequently, the begginning of a show will
> be flagged as a commercial.  For instance, The Simpsons starts off
> with a 30-second or so sequence with music and everyone racing to get
> home (you most certainly know what I mean).  This part almost always
> gets flagged, whether its immediately followed by a commercial or not.
>  The introductory stand-up sequence at the start of every Seinfeld
> episode gets flagged as well.  I've tried using different
> flagging-settings, with similar results every time.
>
> I understand how the flagging works, but not well enough to hack on
> it.  One thing I thought I'd suggest is that (here in the US, anyways)
> pretty much every show starts with a "TV-13" or "TV-MA" or similar
> symbol at the top-left (or maybe top-right) of the screen.  It appears
> almost always at the beginning of the show, and sometimes after a
> commercial break.  I suppose it would be possible for the flagger to
> look for this symbol, since the sequence it appears in is almost
> definitely *not* a commercial.

You mean like the "logo detection" method that you can choose?

> Another thing I thought might be interesting to try would be to look
> at the colors used to try and find commercials.  This would work
> especially well for cartoons, where similar colors are used
> throughout, and the commercials will have very different color
> schemes.

You mean like scene-change detection like you can choose?

> Thanks,
> Pete

There more information about how commercial flagging works on the  
wiki. I suggest starting here:
http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/index.php/Commercial_Flagging



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