[mythtv-users] Commercial Skip

[Brad Templeton]

On Thu, Mar 03, 2005 at 08:56:34AM -0500, James Armstrong wrote:
> >
> >>While I'm writing, I have a wishlist request:  it'd be nice to be able
> >>to have the automatic skipping start 1 or 2 seconds after the
> >>beginning of the commercial (the number should be configurable and
> >>could default to zero, or course).  The reason is that sometimes the
> >>skips are so perfect that I can't tell whether I missed any of the
> >>show.
> 
> How about a configurable feature for Commercial flagging that will not 
> save any 'supposed' commercials over xx minutes. I have been having good 
> luck with commercial flagging lately but there is an occasional 
> commercial that is flagged and is over 5 or 6 minutes and is bogus. I 
> think most of my commercials are only a few minutes long so ignoring 
> ones longer than that would cut out some bad commercial flagging.

Such long gaps do exist, though they are rare, and one presumes the
flagging algorithm settles on them only when it feels it should.

However, an intermediate solution to your problem would be to set it so
that if the gap found is very long, to turn it into two adjacent gaps,
using the 2nd most likely cut-point, no matter how poorly it scored
compared to the 6 minute one.

For those doing auto-skip, they would see no difference, the points are
adjacent.  For those doing manual skip, they would just be hitting the
End button one extra time.