[mythtv-users] Skipping adverts in UK using DVB-T - supported ?

Ashley Bostock abostock at gmail.com
Thu Jan 20 06:54:04 EST 2005


Yes exactly. When I'm fast fowarding (using sticky keys) mythfrontend
does have slight pause and flash (in my case its green) the screen
when changing aspect ratio.  I assume then that the new "All"
detection mode doesnt yet use this?

Ash.


On Thu, 20 Jan 2005 11:30:01 +0000, Christopher McEwan
<christopher.mcewan at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, 20 Jan 2005 10:04:34 +0000, Frank smith <fsmith at web-links.net> wrote:
> > HI I'm in the UK, Cardiff, and noticed your post on this.
> > I note that channel 5 does indeed change the aspect to wide screen I
> > think.
> > We don't get any black bars just lost picture area which in adverts is
> > OK with me!
> >
> > Not sure if channel 4 does this I'll take a look.
> >
> > Cheers
> > Bob
> >
> >
> > > Is this a physical aspect ratio change or does the frame stay the same
> > > ratio and have black bars on the top/bottom?  I have a sample of a UK
> > > broadcast that uses the black bars and will be trying to code up something
> > > to detect that transition so it can be used to determine where commercials
> > > start/stop.  If you mean a physical frame aspect ratio change, then I'd
> > > like to detect this at some point but don't have any sample recordings
> > > to test with right now (I'm in the U.S. with analog cable).
> >
> > 
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> Yes, just to confirm Channel 5 does this in a lot of its programs and
> I did think to myself what an excellent way this would be to skip
> adverts.
> 
> When watching it on my backend it mythfrontend actually does a
> frontend change to the extent that you sometimes actually get a flash
> of blue screen while its changing, I can host a clip of such an aspect
> ratio change if needed as I recently recorded "Snake Hunter: 7
> Deadliest Snakes" which features the aspect change.
> 
> --
> Regards,
> 
> 
> ~CM
> 
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