[mythtv-users] Commercial skipping issue

Jim Morton Jim at Morton.hrcoxmail.com
Tue Jul 13 19:02:35 UTC 2010



Alan Murrell wrote:
> Clay,
>
> Thank you for your feedback.
>
> On 11/07/2010 3:37 PM, Clay wrote:
>> Only difference I can see in my setup is I have Method= Blank frame
>> detection, I skip automatically, Merge short commercials is something
>>  other than zero but I can't check it since my backend just crashed
>> again, and I'm not skipping blank frames.
>>
>> Have you tried it without the skip blank frames?
>
> OK, I have just changed my settings to "Method = Blank Frame" and I 
> have disabled "Skip blank frames".  I will see how that works for the 
> next couple of recordings.  I will leave "Merge short commercials" at 
> "0" for now.  I don't like automatic commercial skipping, partic. now, 
> as I did have it enabled a long time ago and just found that when the 
> commercial detection wasn't 100% accurate for that particular 
> recording, it of course skipped over way too much.
>
> I will report back if still an issue, but input from others still 
> appreciated :-)
>
I suggest a value of 300 in the "maximum commercial skip (in seconds)". 
That is 5 minutes. I can't imagine why the default is set to 60 minutes. 
The longest commercial breaks I generally see are 4 minutes but that's 
just me and here. Might be different where you are.

-- 
Jim Morton


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