[mythtv-users] Commercial Flagging Bad on Firewire

Daniel Agar daniel at agar.ca
Mon Aug 20 02:32:51 UTC 2007


>>>> On the firewire it detects a commercial break a minute or two early
>>>> and
>>>> comes back before the end of the commercial block. I'm not sure, but
>>>> it
>>>> seems like the interval between where the incorrect detect occurs and
>>>> where the commercial block starts increases further in the recording.
>
>>On the hdhr - comm flagging is perfect on hd material, hit or miss on
>>digital non-hd materail
>
>>On the pvr150 which is being fed by a Directv box (using svideo),  it's
>>very hit or miss...and also depends on the channel.  TNT from the pvr150
>>is  terrible, but, TNT from the 500 (which is cable) is pretty good.
>
> Have you both changed the setup option to be more agressive in
> detecting commercials? (I forget what its called)
>
I'm using all methods and when disabling "strict commercial detection" the
matches are very sporadic and often in the middle of the actual program.
Jeopardy is particularly bad I find. Commflagging on my 2 pvr 150s (rogers
analogue cable) is near perfect.



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