[mythtv] RE: Commercial flagging during record

[Liam]

Cool, how much effort do you think it would be to pick up weather subtitles 
are present or not? Then we could skip adverts without having to worry about 
blankframes during the break, this could be used in conjunction with 
blankframes to give exact starttimes.

I'm dreaming of never seeing another coca-cola advert,
Liam

> Tonight I've got my code modified so MythTV is flagging the blank frames
> during recording and saving the list into the database once recording is
> done. If the user has their commercial skip method set at "Blank Frame
> Detection", then it runs a quick (4-5 seconds at most) routine to build the
> commercial break list from this blank frame list. This commercial break
> list is read in by mythfrontend during playback and is giving me near
> instantaneous commercial break skips when I hit the 'Z' key during a
> commercial break. Auto-skip for commercials will also use the list and
> skips them right away. I have a message that pops up when you skip using
> the commercial break list as well. The message shows how much time
> was skipped in seconds.