[mythtv-users] Re: commercial skip/flagging - how well does it workfor you?

[Dane Kantner]

> manually (if Q doesn't take me back to where I was).  I wonder whether
> it would be sensible to have an upper limit for skip - say about 300
> seconds (commercials don't usually last longer than that).
That seems like a good idea to me....

> Another idea I've been thinking about is writing commercial flagging
> based on the channel logo appearing - about 5 seconds after
> commercials, we always get a subtitle showing the name of the show
Do you mean the logo that Myth displays?  You couldn't base commercial
detection off of this--that would be circular.  Though i really don't know
what you're talking about anyway--I don't get a logo/info after each
commercial.  If you mean on the station itself, station identifiers vary too
much I think to search for that... Though, what might be interesting is to
do a search in the span of the 30 minute show for identical frames and from
that formulate some logic on if its a station identifer type frame.

-dane