[mythtv-users] Commercial skips about 5-15 seconds early

Kevin Kuphal kuphal at dls.net
Sat Oct 15 20:11:26 EDT 2005


Chris Pinkham wrote:

>>I'm having an issue recently.  My commercial detection seems to detect 
>>perfectly (duration wise) but the commercial skips about 5-15 seconds 
>>early.  So I miss 5-15 seconds prior to each break and see about 5-15 
>>seconds of the last commercial.  The clocks on both machines are synced 
>>up to each other.  My system is made up of master backend, slave 
>>backend, and remote frontend.
>>
>>Any suggestions appreciated.
>>    
>>
>
>Can you look at the frame numbers for the commercial markers in
>recordedmarkup and see if they match up to the proper frame numbers
>where commercials start/end when you look at them in the editor?
>
>If the frame numbers match up (so commercial detection is correct),
>you can put some debug statements into
>NuppelVideoPlayer::AutoCommercialSkip() to see if this is being
>triggered early for some reason or if frame numbers look off in
>there for some reason.
>  
>
They do seem to match.  The program skips at 23:59:09 and the cutlist 
generated says it skips at 43179 which would be consistent with 30fps if 
my math is right.  What kind of debugging statements are you looking for?

Kevin


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