[mythtv-users] Commercial Skip Questions

[Bruce C.Dillahunty]

Not to criticize at all, but to make a "bug report" to look at...

When the commercial detection gets it right (an amazingly high number 
of times for me, as long as the channel is "clean" on reception), then 
I find its often off by 3-10 frames... I don't know that this really 
matters in viewing, but as a perfectionist type, when I go through to 
double check and edit any mistakes, I find many of the cuts just a 
shade off... seems like it came close...

Just as a thought, is it somehow lagging and tagging where it has 
gotten to (a fraction of a second later) instead of where it was aiming 
at?

No, I know nothing about the code.

Thanks for all your work.

Bruce

On Friday, October 31, 2003, at 04:14 PM, Sean wrote:

> I remember reading someplace that the producers of CSI actually took 
> Tivo
> type devices in mind in the programming (starts at 7:59 CST instead of 
> 8)
> and they butt the show directly against the commercials leaving 1 or 2
> frames of black only.
> Chris, I am definitely NOT criticizing your work (or any of the MythTV
> experience) but I am interested in placing markers in myself for when I
> transcode.
>
> -Sean
>
>
>>>> 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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