[mythtv-users] Commercial Flagging NFL Games

Robert Shields rwshields at gmail.com
Mon Sep 27 15:54:56 UTC 2010


On Mon, Sep 27, 2010 at 11:35 AM, Brian Wood <beww at beww.org> wrote:

> 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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Thanks for all the information.  Happy to hear I wasn't missing some obvious
solution to this.  I'll proceed to use manual skips or live w/o seeing
kickoffs...depending on how lazy I am feeling.
-- 
Rob Shields
Email: rwshields at gmail.com
CWRU Computer Science PhD Student
S.A.G.E. Project Developer (http://darwin.cwru.edu/)
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