[mythtv-users] Commercial Blocker?

[David]

Grant Edwards wrote:

>On Thu, Apr 29, 2004 at 10:28:28PM +0100, David wrote:
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>>Grant Edwards wrote:
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>>>I find the "skip 30 seconds" button works well enough that I
>>>haven't ever looked into the commercial detector option.
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>>doesn't work too well in the UK (OK - it's useless!)
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>Why doesn't it work?
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I suspect it's technical/broadcast differences - I don't think we have 
the black frames around adverts - we (usually) have the channel banners 
instead.
The scene change detection is just too woolly for me - I don't think 
I've seen any commercials detected properly - but plenty of odd tags :)

>>but I find pressing "4" then skip forward usually skips the
>>ads perfectly A commercial break now intrerrupts viewing for
>>at most 5-10 seconds.
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>>It's *so* cool!
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>I've noticed that there are a couple locally scheduled shows
>where the commercial breaks aren't multples of 30 seconds (e.g
>the break will be 4:15 long, so I have to hit the skip-30
>button 9 times and then the back-5 button a few times).
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Yup - hence the 'usually'.
But try the '4 <ffwd> ' combination - much easier than 8/9 ffwds :)
(Works with a remote too)

David