[mythtv-users] Commercial Skip Questions

Jeff Dill jmd at aiconnect.com
Sat Nov 1 16:07:08 EST 2003


You might also want to look at Enterprise - it fades to black a lot, and 
gives the commercial detection (Blank Frame + Scene Change Detection) fits.

But recognizing this, I expect it and go in and fix it.  Don't know how 
anybody could fix that one.....


Chris Pinkham wrote:

>>>First let me say that commercial skipping was not on my list of 
wow

>>>factors when I envisioned my MythTV expererience.
>>>
>>>That was, until, I started using it. Wow. However, as good as the system
>>>is it doesnt work 100% of the time (Anyone watch CSI from last night?).
>>>I get the impression that there is another program out there that will
>>>let me edit the commercial markers. How can I do this? Is it part of the
>>>MythTV interface?
> 
> 
> I haven't watched that CSI yet, so I'll try to see how accurate the
> commercial detection worked and see what it missed and why.  I have
> noticed it mess up on CSI before and saved one episode from a few weeks
> ago but hadn't had a chance to do much debugging on it yet.
> 
> 
> 
>>Yeah, I have to turn off auto commercial advance when I'm watching CSI.  
>> I guess they use blank frames within the show, and that confuses
>>MythTV?
> 
> 
> Ahh, brave soul.  I wrote the commercial detection code and I don't even
> leave auto-skip turned on. :)  I'll try to put some time into debugging
> this sometime soon.  It has been bugging me a little, but most of the time
> I just blame it on letting my wife control the remote. :)
> 
> 
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