[mythtv-users] Commercial Flagging (UK, DVB-T)

[John]

On 28/10/12 11:14, Gareth Glaccum wrote:
> *From:* Anthony Giggins <mailto:seven at seven.dorksville.net>
> > In all the years I've used mythtv (every release from 0.22 to
>     0.26) it
>     > has *never* detected a commercial break. I've had about 3 false
>     > detections, and that's it. I know it must work for other people
>     so my
>     > question is, for all UK users, what settings do you use to make
>     it work?
> Which channels must make a large difference. For me, the defaults have 
> worked fine since I think 0.19.
> I make sure to mark BBC as non-commercial channels (although the 
> number of adverts they now run I might change this).
> I get decent commflag detection on 3,5,11,12,21
>
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Gareth,

Which defaults ? Are you talking about default mythcommflag, with "all 
available methods" ?

Similar to OP I've never found commercial skipping to be worth doing, 
more errors than successes.

3,5,11,12,21 == ITV1,Channel5,picktv,dave,viva ??

Just re-run on ITV1 and still see terrible results :-( On a 2 hour ITV1 
"Lewis" episode, algorithm picks up the rubbish before program start 
perfectly, then finds 2 more adverts during the show, there are actually 
about 6, both the ones it does pick up included significant amounts of 
the episode itself.

Not complaining it doesn't work :-), just interested that it seems to 
work for you.

I also tried mythcommflag wrapper, that tended to be over enthusiastic, 
and find lots of small adverts all the way through. Maybe I need to 
start watching American shows with continuous laugh tracks ;-)
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