[mythtv-users] Help with commercial flagging -- cutting out part of program

[Chris Pinkham]

* On Tue Mar 21, 2006 at 01:46:50PM -0800, John Biundo wrote:
> John P Poet wrote:
>  > Chris' commercial detection code is really amazing in how accurate it
>  > is.  It is far more accurate than my old ReplayTV's commercial
>  > detection.  That being said it is not perfect.
> 
> I hope it goes without saying that my question is not a complaint.  I 
> should have led off by mentioning how much I appreciate it, and how 
> addicted I am to commercial free TV.

That's it!  I'm taking my toys and going home.....  :)  I think the next
thing I'll try to do is implement detection based on CC/Teletext
information.  I was looking at the code for that the other day and think
it's easier to implement that I first imagined.  Right now though, there are
a few other bigger non-flagger things ahead of it on my TODO list so it may
be a while.

> That said, of course it bothers viewers to have a segment of the show 
> chopped out.  Again, not a complaint since I'm grateful to have the 

I know I have a wierd sense of humor sometimes, but I find it a litle
amusing sometimes the number of people that use Auto-Skip.  I don't
even use that, I'd rather just hit Z/Q when necessary especially when Q
takes you back to where you hit Z if you hit it within a couple seconds
after you notice the flagging was off.

> Fair enough, and that works for me personally.  But it's not something I 
> think I'll be able to get my wife or kids to do.  Again, I can live with 
> this (as can they -- it's pretty easy to recognize one of these misses, 
> and easy to manually correct it with jump/rewind, etc.), but I was 
> hoping there might be some "best practices" for how to minimize the 
> problem in the first place.

There's not much that a user can configure related to the flagger.  There
are some undocumented settings for testing, but most of the time when
people start munging with the settings they end up making it worse and
give up.  There are a few who have gotten more into the code and have made
some good suggestions recently, so I think the accuracy has been improving
a little lately even though I haven't made any mods in a while other
than applying others' patches.

--
Chris