<div class="gmail_quote">On 6 October 2010 17:09, Michael T. Dean <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mtdean@thirdcontact.com">mtdean@thirdcontact.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
The only way to control the preview pixmap offset in trunk is to set a bookmark.</blockquote><div><br></div><div>Mike - Many thanks for this very comprehensive reply.</div><div><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
That's because the section where the preview is taken is /not/ marked as an advertisement--the commercial detection failed for you in that section. Watch the show and you'll see that the commercial that was used for the preview is actually in a section that's not marked as a commercial.<br>
</blockquote><div><br></div><div>You are quite right- in all cases when I have preview snapshots of commercials it /is/ the commercial detection that has failed. In all other cases the previews are fine.</div><div><br></div>
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The current approach in trunk is significantly better than the single-offset-for-all-recordings approach we previously had. I did a very extensive test with >1300 recordings I have recorded over a period of years by backporting the smart preview pixmap offset to 0.23-fixes and running it on my production machine. It was /significantly/ better than using /any/ single offset for all recordings. However, (as before) it can fail when commercial flagging fails.<br>
</blockquote><div><br></div><div>Agreed; as a relative newcomer here I don't have anything like this number of recordings, nor the experience of Myth that you have, but I can now see that this is clearly a far better method of generating previews, and where my previews have 'failed' it is a failure of the commercial detection that has caused the problem.</div>
<div></div></div><br><div>Thanks again,</div><div>George</div><div><br></div>