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

[Gareth Glaccum]

Sorry, I was wrong, I did change one variable...... maximum advert length. I up-ed it to 6 minutes. On 5 for instance (yes, the channels you guessed were correct), in CSI most of the adverts are 4 minutes 13 seconds exactly in length. This is longer than the default advert length. What I guess is that most of the devs might be American, where they tend to get much more frequent adverts, but shorter lengths. 


From: John 
Sent: Monday, October 29, 2012 12:36 PM
To: mythtv-users at mythtv.org 
Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] Commercial Flagging (UK, DVB-T)

On 28/10/12 11:14, Gareth Glaccum wrote:

  From: Anthony Giggins 
      > 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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