[mythtv-users] Hauppauge MediaMVP

[PAUL WILLIAMSON]

>>> "David Shay" <david at shay.net> 02/06/06 12:10 PM >>>
> Out of curiousity, how did your patch work?  Did you extend
> libcmyth to retrieve the commercial skip map?  If so, how did 
> you deal with frame number to file-offset conversions?  I 
> added bookmark support to libcmyth last week and was 
> going to work on commercial skip this week, but even with 
> bookmarks, there is this whole conversion issue.  I'm thinking 
> I need to use the info in recordedmarkup to do a conversion, 
> but that would have to be done on the backend side.

I extended libcmyth, but I also added some cutting to the 
beginning and end of the recordings manually to figure out 
how the recordedmarkup factored in to the skipping.

Since I knew that there was always at least a 5 second 
cut at the beginning and the end of a recording, that allowed 
me to figure out the offset.  It was a bit of a kludge and I 
wasn't happy with having to manually edit every show, but 
it worked pretty good.  Since the mvp is in the kid's area, 
I only worried about the pre- and post- cutting on their 
shows.  

I did notice on longer recordings it didn't work as well, 
so sometimes I started to skip a bit late (or early) and 
resumed playing a little bit too early (or late).

Paul