<div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 15 July 2017 at 21:54, evade. <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:evade@internode.on.net" target="_blank">evade@internode.on.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div class="gmail-HOEnZb"><div class="gmail-h5">On 15/07/17 21:43, Mark Perkins wrote:<br>
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On 15 July 2017 8:33:11 pm evade. <<a href="mailto:evade@internode.on.net" target="_blank">evade@internode.on.net</a>> wrote:<br>
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Hello,<br>
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I've used MythTV for about 10 years and although Australian free-to-air<br>
TV networks are known for difficult commercial detection, MythTV used to<br>
work really well a few years ago.<br>
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Do any Australians have Commercial Detection working well and could they<br>
please let me know what methods they use for which channels?<br>
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Aside from the obvious things, like turning off commercial detection on<br>
commercial-free ABC, I've found that I have to use the 'strict<br>
commercial detection' option to prevent problems.<br>
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For example in AFL games the network goes to an Ad break after a goal is<br>
scored. If another goal is scored within 30 seconds and the network<br>
goes to another Ad break MythTV was putting them all together and<br>
skipping the game time in between.<br>
<br>
Without the 'strict commercial detection' option I've also had other<br>
issues with parts of a program being cut with the Ads.<br>
<br>
<br>
I've not experimented yet, but I get the impression that SBS is less<br>
sneaky about their Ad breaks and one of the simpler detection methods<br>
might suffice.<br>
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I've had no consistent success with Nine, Seven or Ten.<br>
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Thanks!<br>
evade.<br>
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What version mythtv are you running? IIRC user faginbagin identified an<br>
issue with how some commflag technical parameters were being calculated /<br>
handled and developed a series of patches to remedy. But I don't recall if<br>
they got pushed to fixes or not. If they did it was probably only to<br>
fixes/0.28, maybe.<br>
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I use the silence detection script (Australian FTA Dvb-t)<br>
<a href="https://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Commercial_detection_with_silences" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Co<wbr>mmercial_detection_with_silenc<wbr>es</a><br>
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It seems to work reasonably well on movies (maybe 75%). Not so great on TV<br>
series particularly channel 7.<br>
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Thanks again Mark!<br>
<br>
That script is promising, but it looks a little complex to implement.<br>
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I see it's a few years old, yet hasn't been included with MythTV yet. Is that a bad thing?<br>
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You're right, I actually have an older version currently on our main TV (0.27.6+fixes20170114) stuck on mythbuntu 14.04. However I've been writing questions here as I'm building a new MythTV box which has 0.28.1-3 (2017-04-24).<span class="gmail-HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br>
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evade.</font></span><div class="gmail-HOEnZb"><div class="gmail-h5"><br></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Another vote for silence detection it works great. </div><div><br></div><div>just make sure the australian presets file matches the new channel names and just remember you only have to set it up once :)</div><div><br></div><div><a href="https://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Commercial_detection_with_silences#Australian_Channel_Presets">https://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Commercial_detection_with_silences#Australian_Channel_Presets</a><br></div><div><br></div><div>Cheers,</div><div><br></div><div>Anthony</div></div></div></div>