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

Chris Pinkham cpinkham at bc2va.org
Thu Jun 19 18:43:33 EDT 2003


That's what mythcommflag is for.  Just run it from the command line and it
will flag all unflagged recordings.  Run with --help and it will list
all options.  I described this in the paragraph below.

> Is it possible to start the commercial detection manually on programs 
> already recorded?
> 
> Ralf
> 
> Chris Pinkham wrote:
> 
> >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.

Chris



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