[mythtv-users] realtime commflag on hardware encoding ?

[Robin Gilks]

> Matt SF wrote:
>
>>i saw some old posts in the archive about some developers looking into
>>the possibility of doing a realtime commercial flagging routine on the
>>output from hardware-based encoders (e.g. a PVR-350)
>>
>>Does anyone know if progress was made in that area?  thanks!
>>
>>
> There's a "near-real-time commercial flagging" capability in SVN, but
> it's completely independent of the capture card.  It uses the same
> mythcommflag that has always been used, but it starts the process a few
> minutes after the recording begins so that it completes shortly after
> the recording ends.

Would I be right in thinking that this new facility only works on the
backend that the recording is happening on? I ask as I'm using SVN (of
about 4 days ago) but I mythcommflag on my masterbackend as the slave
hasn't the horsepower and it only starts to comm flag when the show has
finished recording.

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Robin Gilks