[mythtv-users] Commercial Detection

[Dick Steffens]

On 04/17/2015 06:37 AM, dennis wrote:
> It varies greatly depending on the show.  Seems to work better for me 
> with OTA, not quite as good with comcast cable.
>
> On occasion towards the end of a show it will skip past the last 
> couple of minutes after the last commercial break.   Once in a great 
> while it will think part of the show is a commercial and skip  past a 
> full segment between commercials.
>
> You might want to try 'Notify, but do not skip' and have it notify a 
> few seconds before the break.  If that works well for you, then go to 
> full automatic skipping.   I prefer to have it just notify, and just 
> push a button on my remote to skip.

It's been months since I tried using Z to skip commercials. When I did 
that, skip worked correctly the first time, but not after that, so I 
went back to using the > key on my remote. I used to use a ReplayTV with 
autoskip. The only time I had to turn off autoskip was when watching PBS 
programs. They sometimes had fade to black, but without a following 
commercial (obviously). So I don't think Comcast cable (greater 
Portland, Oregon) is an issue.

I'm running a "stock" Ubuntu 12.04 with both backend and frontend.

mythfrontend --version returns:

MythTV Version : v0.27.4-41-gf1115fc
MythTV Branch : fixes/0.27
Network Protocol : 77
Library API : 0.27.20141016-1
QT Version : 4.8.1
Options compiled in:
  linux profile use_hidesyms using_alsa using_oss using_pulse 
using_pulseoutput using_backend using_bindings_perl 
using_bindings_python using_bindings_php using_crystalhd using_dvb 
using_firewire using_frontend using_hdhomerun using_ceton using_hdpvr 
using_ivtv using_joystick_menu using_libcec using_libcrypto 
using_libdns_sd using_libfftw3 using_libxml2 using_lirc using_mheg 
using_opengl using_opengl_video using_qtwebkit using_qtscript 
using_qtdbus using_sdl using_taglib using_v4l2 using_x11 using_xrandr 
using_xv using_profiletype using_bindings_perl using_bindings_python 
using_bindings_php using_mythtranscode using_opengl using_vaapi 
using_vdpau using_ffmpeg_threads using_mheg using_libass using_libxml2

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Regards,

Dick Steffens