[mythtv-users] Mythcommflag in Italy or Europe

[Marco Ridoni]

Steven Adeff wrote:
> 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.
> 

Yes, by reading the lists I got the feeling the situation was more or less this, but nevertheless I wanted to know, 
before making more attempts, if it was worth trying.

I'm going to do a few tests with the parameters Paul suggested and then report back to the list

Thanks

Marco