[mythtv] Re: cvs and commercial flagging/skipping?

[Chris Pinkham]

> OK, I now have a better description of this "feature" after I figured 
> this out:
> 
> I have two networked mythtv boxes.  If the pre-recorded file resides on 
> the *remote* machine from the watch/edit console, pressing "Z" on the 
> (watch/edit) box has no effect.

The commercial code doesn't care where the file is stored, it only looks at
the recordedmarkup table to see if you have blank frames or commercials already
flagged and if not it will attempt to detect blank frames whenever you 
press 'Z' during playing.

> And if I recall correctly in mythtv 0.8 the commercials became marked 
> ("red") if "Z" was pressed in watch or edit mode.  In the current cvs 
> commercials would only be marked if you're in edit mode.  Personally I 
> don't really see why commercials shouldn't become *automatically* marked 
> (in edit mode) if "automatically flag" is checked.

Whenever you enter edit mode, you are editing the cutlist.  The cutlist
can be different from the commercial skip list since cutlists are
automatically skipped whether you have "Automatic Commercial Skip" turned
on or off.  The cutlist is always skipped, so I didn't want to automatically
copy the commercial list into the cutlist.  That is what the 'Z' (copy to
cutlist) and 'C' (clear cutlist) keys are for.

If you are trying to watch a program and you have Automatic Commercial Flagging
turned on and commercial skipping is not working then maybe blank frame
detection does not work for you.  Check the contents of the recordedmarkup
table for records for the particular shows you are talking about.  There
should be lots of '3' type rows (blank frames), and an equal number of type
'4' and '5' rows (commercial break start and end frames).  You might have
commercial flagging turned on for one backend and not the other.  I recently
converted the Automatic Commercial Flagging and Commercial Skip Method
settings to globals so you don't have to set them on every backend.  This
could be a problem in that you have a backend not set to automatically flag.
You can try deleting all rows that have to do with commercial flagging and
the skip method and then re-running setup (from current cvs) to reset
those options.  Then see if shows are getting flagged properly on both
backends.

delete from settings where value = "AutoCommercialFlag"
	and hostname is not null;
delete from settings where value = "CommercialSkipMethod"
	and hostname is not null;

> 
> Mark Chou wrote:
> > I downloaded and ran cvs code from 5/22.  Now whenever I play a 
> > pre-recorded file, the commercials are not marked out in edit mode 
> > (there are no red segments), despite having "Automatically Flag 
> > Commercials" checked and pressing "Z" (in play mode.)
> > 
> > Am I doing something wrong??  I've also run mythcommflag, and that 
> > doesn't seem to update the db with the cutlist...
> > 
> > It's a drag not having commercial automatically flagged.  How do I go 
> > about making sure I've at least configured all this correctly?
> > 
> 
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Chris