[mythtv-users] Commercial Flagging NFL Games

Brian Wood beww at beww.org
Mon Sep 27 15:35:22 UTC 2010


On Monday, September 27, 2010 09:30:54 am Clay wrote:
> Robert Shields wrote:
> > I have been recording NFL games and watching them after being commercial
> > flagged (it makes the game go about 3x faster).
> > 
> > I have found that during the commercial flagging process MythTV always
> > flags the kickoffs as commercials since the network only shows the one
> > play and immediately goes back to commercial.  I realize that I could go
> > through manually and fix every kickoff so it isn't flagged, but that
> > solution has
> > 
> > two problems:
> >    1. It would be time consuming
> >    2. More importantly, in doing so I would know the score of the game
> >    before I saw the whole thing...kind of ruins the experience.
> > 
> > I also know I could simply watch the game w/o commercial flagging or fast
> > forward manually when I know a kickoff is coming, but I thought before I
> > did either of these two I would ask to community if they had come across
> > this issue before.  If so, how did you solve it?
> 
> Some shows I record have known (to me) commflagging issues... lots of
> dark scenes that get flagged, people walking in front of the camera that
> get flagged, etc.
> 
> For these I simply hit play, then immediately turn off auto-skip.
> Use the comm skip button when I get to commercials.

Live sports is probably a "worst case" for commercial detection. Breaks tend to be unpredictable and not always according 
to a set format. Things like the CC or rating logo are often missing, and the timing of blocks is sometimes not a multiple 
of 15 seconds.

That's why Myth offers "Plan B", simple skipping forward.



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