[mythtv-users] How well does commercial detection work?

Chris Pinkham cpinkham at bc2va.org
Sat Apr 2 03:09:52 UTC 2005


> > I just committed a patch to CVS to disable skipping when the last commercial
> > flagging marker is less than 10 seconds from the end of the recording.  It
> > will instead display the "At End, can not Skip" message that it normally
> > does when you are at the end of the recording and there are no more commercial
> > flagging marks after your current position.
> > 
> Thanks, that sounds good, worth doing a checkout for. (I've not been
> checking out the last couple of weeks for fear of the giant flood of
> patches that got applied, I think it's now pretty stable.)

Yeah, I told my wife about it tonight and it really helped the WFA go up some. :)

> I did like the other suggestion we saw here, that the OSD's display-bar
> be coloured or marked with the cutlist and/or commercial skip list, as
> well as of course the cursor and the not-yet-recorded segment.   Flashing
> that up with the OSD on every commercial skip and other move would give

I saved a couple posts that were talking about this and may look into it
sometime if no-one else does.  Might be something that might work better
with the UI interface changes that are being talked about.

-- 

Chris



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