<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, May 19, 2008 at 12:03 PM, James Orr <<a href="mailto:james.orr7@gmail.com">james.orr7@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div class="Ih2E3d">On Mon, May 19, 2008 at 11:10 AM, Marc Randolph <<a href="mailto:mrand@pobox.com" target="_blank">mrand@pobox.com</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Howdy all,<br>
<br>
Overall commercial flagging works quite well - I believe that I have<br>
my commercial flagging set for strict, using all detection methods.<br>
So I was pretty surprised when it made two mistakes last Friday on<br>
Battlestar Galatica. Not a huge deal, and didn't seem to bother the<br>
wife too much, but it for sure convinced me that I don't want to<br>
auto-transcode to remove commercials like I was considering. There<br>
were actually two different types of errors:<br>
<br>
a) Right in the middle of the show, it properly skipped a commercial,<br>
plus an extra period of time after the commercial ended. I jumped<br>
back and noticed there was definitely a "TV14" logo on the screen at<br>
the point where commflag should have detected the end of the<br>
commercial, but apparently didn't.<br>
<br>
b) Right before the show ended, it "detected" a commercial when there<br>
wasn't one (I have the commercial notification pop-up turned on).<br>
There was definitely a major transition in the scene, but it wasn't<br>
time to go to commercial.<br>
<br>
A couple of questions:<br>
<br>
1. Has there been any interest on the part of the developers (or<br>
anyone else) to improve commflagging? If so, I'd be willing to get<br>
this recording to someone somehow.<br>
2. Is it better to use only certain detection methods rather than all<br>
of them? Are there ones that are better to avoid?<br>
</blockquote></div><div><br>Auto-transcode does not remove commercials, you need to edit the recording and create a cut-list first. You can get a head-start on the cut-list by loading in the commercial flagging results by pressing "Z".<br>
<br>Commercial flagging works 95% of the time (in the US anyway), but I don't think it could ever be 100%. You should always manually check it before making any permanent changes.<br></div></div><br>
</blockquote></div><br>Agreed. Commercial detection is not 100% accurate. I see an incorrect commercial detection in about one out of every ten shows I watch. In particular shows with short or long breaks often confuse the commercial detection software. Like sports shows where they will have a real short commercial break in between plays or a gameshow that has an extended break before the final round almost always get flagged wrong.<br>
<br clear="all"><br>-- <br>_____________<br>Ryan Patterson