[mythtv-users] mythcommflag is pretty darn amazing

Koskinen Martin martin.koskinen at gmail.com
Tue Sep 1 18:44:52 UTC 2009


I don't know about free view in UK but it works pretty well in  
Finland. I only have DVB-T free view and the commflag is not off by  
more than a few seconds.

//Martin

On 1 sep 2009, at 21.28, Richard Mortonn wrote:

> I understand that commflagging only works in the USA, or am I
> incorreclty informed. Has someone got experience of getting
> commflagging working in the UK? especially with regards to Freeview
> OTA/Terrestrial - although I am thinking of Freeview HD (satellite) at
> some point.
>
> R
>
>
>
> Thanks And Regards,
>
> Richard Morton
>
> 2009/9/1 Yeechang Lee <ylee at pobox.com>:
>> MythTV's commflagging has worked quite well for me for almost four
>> years, with very few false positives or false negatives. (I use All
>> Methods and Strict on -fixes.) But it managed to impress me again
>> today.
>>
>> I began recording from CNBC HD a few days ago. For those who haven't
>> seen it, various scrolling banners, charts, and other data occupy one
>> third of the screen at all times. Nonetheless, mythcommflag  
>> accurately
>> picks up the commercial breaks. How in the world does it do this? I
>> know it can't be the logo detection; is it the blank frames?
>>
>> --
>> Yeechang Lee <ylee at pobox.com> | San Francisco CA US
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