[mythtv-users] Commflagging when recording

[Michael T. Dean]

On 04/23/2008 03:15 PM, Tom Dexter wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 23, 2008 at 1:51 PM, Ismo Tanskanen <ismot at telemail.fi> wrote:
>   
>> I found this at wiki:
>>
>>  *Note:* 'Automatically flag commercials' in a show's recording options
>>  must be enabled for any method other than 'blank frame detection' to
>>  work. That is to say, only blank frame detection flagging will work if
>>  commflagging is run as a job at a later date.
>>
>>  Is this true also with 0.21 svn? I run commflagging afterwards, and it
>>  works pretty fine, but sometimes misses a break.
>>  Should flagging be done during recording? Does it produce better results?
>>     
> I asked that here:
>
> http://www.mythtvtalk.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=7533&highlight=blank+frame+detection
>
> ...and didn't get any response.  I don't understand that statement
> either, and I can't believe it's correct, unless this is something
> that is/was true of analog recordings.  I do commercial flagging on my
> recordings (all DVB)...some while they're recording and others that I
> queue up during the night with a cron script, and I'm sure they're all
> using the "all methods" that I've chosen.
>
> Regardless of when it's run the process should be identical...decode then flag.

The fact that running mythcommflag from the command line on my systems 
(configured with detection type "All Available Methods") starts out 
with, "Finding Logo," kind of indicates that it's not true.

Mike