[mythtv-users] Mythcommflag in Italy or Europe

[Michael T. Dean]

On 02/16/2006 05:05 PM, Chris Pinkham wrote:
>> On 02/16/2006 02:04 AM, Thomas Börkel wrote:
>>     
>>> Michael T. Dean wrote:
>>>       
>>>> Besides the default strategy (blank frame), there's scene change, logo, 
>>>> blank frame and scene change, and all.  And, note that you must have 
>>>> "Automatically Flag Commercials" enabled to use anything other than 
>>>> blank frame.
>>>>         
>>> Why is it necessary to enable automatically flagging to be able to use 
>>> all stragegies?
>>>
>>> I'd like to flag some older recordings with all strategies.
>> How's this for a useless answer?  Because the documentation for the 
>> setting says so:
>>
>> Commercial Skip Method
>> This determines the method used by MythTV to detect when commercials 
>> start and end.  You must have 'Automatically Flag Commercials' enabled 
>> to use anything other than 'Blank Frame'.
> And since that appears to be out of date, unfortunately it's even more
> useless. :)
>   
> Which part of the docs is this in? (coming from someone who can count on
> two hands the number of times he's actually read them since I've been using
> Myth since 0.7).

It's actually in the "live" documentation for the setting ( 
http://svn.mythtv.org/trac/browser/trunk/mythtv/programs/mythfrontend/globalsettings.cpp?rev=8988#L385 
).  I also looked through the most likely places in the official docs to 
see if there's any similarly out-of-date information regarding this 
setting, but couldn't find any.

I would have created a little patch for you, but I have no idea what the 
new text should say--short of just deleting the second sentence...  If 
that's the case, the above URL (with file name/line number) is probably 
just as easy as (or easier than) a patch.

Thanks for the answers, too.  I knew you would be far more qualified 
than I to explain the issue--I'm mainly just qualified to quote the 
settings and documentation.  :)

Mike