[mythtv-users] Commercial detection and PVR-250?

[Chris Pinkham]

Actually, the mythcommflag executable is not required but can be used by people
who want to have a little bit more control over when commercials are flagged.
If you turn on "Auto Commercial Flagging" in the mythfrontend setup, then
immediately after a recording is finished, it will be "played" in the
background and flagged.  This flagging process is run with a very low
priority so it does not hinder any other recordings which may be in progress.
If you want to run all your flagging on a faster machine or a machine other
than the backend which recorded a video, then turn make sure the auto-flagging
is turned off and just run mythcommflag from the command line or cron every
so often.  "mythcommflag --help" will give more help but you don't need
to give it any command line options just to flag new recordings which haven't
been flagged yet.

For people who use software encoding myth will scan for blank frames during
the recording process and generate a quick commercial skip list once the
recording finishes, but it's still better to turn on the auto-flagging in
combination with the "Blank Frame with Scene Change Detection" commercial
detection method since it's more accurate.

> All of the commercial detection is now done by a external executable that gets 
> run after the recording is finished, so no matter what your input is, it will 
> work.  But you'll have to wait a little bit for it to finish before you watch 
> your shows, but it's the same for the normal capture users too.
> 
> On Wednesday 18 June 2003 09:57, Curtis Stanford wrote:
> > Simple question. Since there is no raw video feed that Mythtv can see using
> > a PVR-250, does the commercial detection work with a 250?

Chris