[mythtv-users] Commflagging in the UK?

[Ashley Bostock]

On 27/03/2008, Steve Smith <st3v3.sm1th at gmail.com> wrote:
> Or anywhere non-US for that matter...
>
>  All this talk of commflagging has inspired me to look at commflagging
>  which I've never
>  really had any success with in the past so..
>
>  Anyone had any luck with commflagging in the UK? What options/tuning
>  did you use?
>
>  Cheers
>
>  Steve
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I use it quite a lot in the UK but I think it really depends on what
channels and programmes you watch in how much success you see.  For
example I've noticed some shows like "fifth gear" and "the gadget
show" on channel 5 have the ads detected perfectly >90% of the time.

I use the all methods option, configured it to notify but not auto
skip when it detects an ad and set this to show 8 seconds before as
I've noticed lots of shows now fade to black then play the show's
sponsor bit before the ads come on - prompting a long time early
therefore saves you sitting through that before the notify pop-up
appears.  I've also configured it to merge small adjacent ad breaks
together and set a sensible limit for the ad length to detect (not in
front of my machine at the mo so can't remember the exact length I
use).

I have my skip forward and back buttons on the remote set to Z and Q,
so all I do when watching a show is... if I know an ad is coming up
(either from the notify pop-up or you I can tell myself) I just hit
skip to see if it skips the ad correctly. If it has then great,
otherwise... if it went too far you can just hit skip back (to take
you to where you were before) and fast-forward it yourself manually.

For the shows I watch I find it works frequently enough to be very useful.