[mythtv-users] Mythcommflag in Italy or Europe

[Steven Adeff]

On 2/15/06, Paul Andreassen <paulx at andreassen.com.au> wrote:
> On Wed, 15 Feb 2006 08:00 pm, Chris Hembrow wrote:
> > On 2/15/06, Pshem Kowalczyk <pshem.k at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > On 15/02/06, Marco Ridoni <m.ridoni at cicero.it> wrote:
> > > > Is someone successfully using mythcommflag to remove commercials from
> > > > recording in Italy or in other European countries? I had to disable it
> > > > since it apparently couldn't flag a single commercial even with
> > > > "aggressive" settings.
> > >
> > > Not sure about Europe, but here in NZ I have similiar problem - some
> > > of the adds are not getting marked properly (begining or end of the ad
> > > block is not recogniesed on some channels).
> > >
> > > regards
> > > pshemko
> > I have the same problem in the UK. Some ads aren't matched, or it'll
> > match the start of the ads, then match the end of the channel
> > "trailers" as the end of the adverts, so I still have to skip the
> > adverts.
> >
>
> Could you please have a look at the output of a run of mythcommflag, it may
> give some ideas of the problem.
>
> export DEBUGCOMMFLAG=1
> mythcommflag -c 1002 -s 20050925223500 --verbose commflag --force  >
> commflagout.txt 2>&1
>

In the US and I'd say its 95% accurate on about 20% of the channels,
70% accurate on about 30% of the channels and 30% accurate on the
other 50% of the channels.

All of this is due to how the different channels handle switching to
and from commercials from the actual show. Some make mythcommflag's
life easy some make it quite difficult.

--
Steve