[mythtv-users] Mythcommflag tweaking

[Will Marler]

Wow, great digging Stephen! Much obliged.

The "automatic commercial skipping is not affected by this limit" comment
sounds discouraging : (.

Will


On Sun, Dec 29, 2013 at 10:19 PM, Stephen Worthington <
stephen_agent at jsw.gen.nz> wrote:

> On Sun, 29 Dec 2013 19:46:43 -0700, you wrote:
>
> >Hey mythtv users,
> >
> >MythTV commercial detection is working for me most of the time, but
> >sometimes it's incorrectly detecting especially long breaks; 5 and 6
> >minutes, during a show where breaks are at most 2:30 (and usually
> >1:40-1:55).
> >
> >I recall there being a setting in the commflagging setup for a "maximum
> >commercial skip" time; if mythcommflag detected a "commercial" to go
> longer
> >than this length of time, the break would be ended. However, it seems this
> >is no longer an option, at least not in the GUI. Is this something that
> was
> >removed, or moved, does anyone know? Is there a way to configure it again?
> >
> >Thanks in advance,
> >
> >Will
>
> I can remember setting that option in the past, but I can never
> remember where any option like that is in the GUI unless I use it
> frequently.  Like you, I tried to find it but was unable to by just
> browsing the settings.  But I found that it is still present in my
> settings table - it is called MaximumCommercialSkip, and I have it set
> to 600 (presumably seconds).  So I grepped the 0.27-fixes source code
> and found references to it in
> mythtv/programs/mythfrontend/globalsettings.cpp.  On loading the I
> globalsettings.cpp file I found this code:
>
> static GlobalSpinBox *MaximumCommercialSkip()
> {
>     GlobalSpinBox *bs = new GlobalSpinBox("MaximumCommercialSkip", 0,
> 3600, 10);
>
>     bs->setLabel(PlaybackSettings::tr("Maximum commercial skip
> (secs)"));
>
>     bs->setHelpText(PlaybackSettings::tr("MythTV will discourage long
> manual "
>                                          "commercial skips. Skips
> which are "
>                                          "longer than this will
> require the "
>                                          "user to hit the SKIP key
> twice. "
>                                          "Automatic commercial
> skipping is "
>                                          "not affected by this
> limit."));
>
>     bs->setValue(3600);
>
>     return bs;
> }
>
> which means that it is in the playback settings.  So I went to Setup >
> Video > Playback > Advert Skip 8/8) and there it was: Maximum advert
> skip (secs).
>
> There has got to be a better way to find obscure settings!
>
> PS: We speak English English in New Zealand, not American English, so
> wherever it says "Advert" above, you probably will need to substitute
> "Commercial"
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