[mythtv-users] Daddy, what's a commercial

John Drescher drescherjm at gmail.com
Fri Jan 12 15:30:13 UTC 2007


> I was initially using Blank Frame Detection.  It was very fast, but I
> found the accuracy unacceptably bad.  Part of this is because I do watch
> a lot of shows with fade-to-black transitions.  ("Intervention" on A&E
> is a good example of a show where Blank Frame Detection fails miserably.)
>
I have used this method for over a year now and I find that it is good
on some shows and bad on others. One example is a soap opera that I
record 5 days a week for my girlfriend requires manual editing for the
commercials more than 75% of the time and I also have to be careful as
it has been known to delete several minutes of the show. However when
I record a show on animal planet there usually is very little or no
editing necessary.

> I switched to using "All Methods" and I've been much happier.  It's
> slower, though.  On my VIA M10000 system it runs barely faster than
> realtime, around 36 fps.  I still rarely have more than a few shows in
> the job queue, though, so for my purposes it's fast enough.  (The
> exception is if someone accidentally leaves the frontend on the "Watch
> Recordings" screen.  That little preview window consumes a surprising
> amount of CPU, leaving little for background jobs.)

I'll check into that. Thanks for the info.


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