[mythtv-users] Commercial Blocker?

[Grant Edwards]

On Fri, Apr 30, 2004 at 09:29:22AM -0400, Joseph A. Caputo wrote:

>>> Man it sure would be nice to be able to watch a 1 hour show in
>>> about 30 minutes!    Can anyone explain how the commercial blocker
>>> works?
>>
>> I've wondered that as well.  Does it assume that the CPU is
>> doing encoding of the video stream or decoding of the ".nuv"
>> file?  If so, does that mean the feature won't work with a
>> PVR-350?
> 
[...]
> After a recording has finished, a separate thread runs that
> goes back through the recording and detects/marks the
> commercials using a more finely-tuned process.  Once this
> process is complete, commercial skipping is instantaneous.
[...]
> Since the commercial cuts are merely stored as frame skip
> lists, commercial skipping works fine with hardware decoding
> like the PVR-350, Epia or XvMC.  Myth just won't feed the
> decoder those frames.

Thanks for the explination.  I'll try it out.

-- 
Grant Edwards
grante at visi.com