[mythtv-users] why does myth commflag commercial free channels

[Steve Peters - Priority Electronics]

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>[mailto:mythtv-users-bounces at mythtv.org] On Behalf Of Michael T. Dean
>Sent: Thursday, April 24, 2008 10:30 AM
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>Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] why does myth commflag commercial 
>free channels
>
>
>On 04/24/2008 12:42 PM, Steve Peters - Priority Electronics wrote:
>> I have my default recording profile set to comm flag 
>recordings. When 
>> i go into mythweb, i edited the channels and checked the box by 
>> commercial free for several channels.
>>  
>> But, when i have recordings come up that are on those channels, myth 
>> still wants to commercial flag them, and usually ends up 
>finding 0 or 
>> 1 commercial cut point. Why does it have a commercial free 
>check box? 
>> It doesn't seem to do anything.
>
>Thanks for the reminder...  I had saved an old thread with the 
>intention 
>of updating it when I figured out the problem.  Nice to clear that out 
>and clean one more thing off my TODO list.
>
>The problem is that MythWeb has not been updated to use the new 
>commmethod field rather than the deprecated commfree field.  The new 
>commmethod allows you to specify a per-channel commercial detection 
>method; whereas the old was a simple boolean.
>
>So, the answer is:  don't use MythWeb to set the commfree field.  Use 
>mythtv-setup to set the commercial detection method to 
>"Commercial Free" 
>on each commercial free channel.
>
>I do /not/ recommend this approach, but those who have used MythWeb to 
>set the commfree field could do something like:
>
>UPDATE channel SET commmethod = -2 WHERE commfree = 1;
>
>If you break your DB, don't blame me.  Your problem, not mine. 
> Backup, etc.
>
>> Also, is there a way to do a record one showing of this title, but 
>> only when it's on a commercial free channel? That way, i can 
>select a 
>> movie, and if it's on tbs, it won't record, but if in 2-3 weeks it 
>> comes on hbo, it will record.
>
>There's the option of using a custom recording rule to specify 
>"channel.commmethod = -2" and setting it to a higher priority than 
>another rule that doesn't specify a commercial-free channel.  There's 
>the option of setting your commercial-free channels to a 
>higher priority 
>than other "commercial-full" channels.  There are probably 
>many others, 
>but I'll defer to others with far better understanding of 
>prioritization 
>than me.
>
>Mike
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OK, so I went into mythtv-setup and changed the proper channels to
commercial free. (running mythbuntu 7.10 btw). Now when I go back into
mythweb, and select a show on one of those channels, it still has the
auto-flag commercials checked. So nothing has changed.

-Thanks