[mythtv-users] Commercials are never detected

[Matt Clifton]

I tried both running mysqlcheck and manually flagging a program today and I got the same results. Mythcommflag runs without any noticeable errors and says that 0 commercial breaks were found. I don't know what kind of messages I should be receiving with the high verbosity setting on mythcommflag, but I didn't see any major errors, it just didn't find anything. The only thing I noticed was that I have some old programs in the database where the files do not exist, mythcommflag complained about that when I ran it without specifying a recording, but I don't see how that would make any difference since it ran fine after specifying the file to flag.

What does mythcommflag rely on to detect the commercial breaks? I'm just wondering if a dependency is screwed up or if there's some sort of settings file somewhere? Is there something in the database I should check for? Seems like there must be something else it relies on, because if all the rules are built into the mythcommflag binary I don't see how it could get screwed up.

> Date: Sun, 4 May 2008 07:17:51 -0500
> From: george_mythusers at mari1938.org
> To: lynx44 at u.washington.edu; mythtv-users at mythtv.org
> Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] Commercials are never detected
> 
> > From: beww at beww.org
> > To: lynx44 at u.washington.edu; mythtv-users at mythtv.org
> > Date: Sat, 3 May 2008 18:33:58 -0600
> > Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] Commercials are never detected
> > 
> > 
> > On May 3, 2008, at 6:26 PM, Matt Clifton wrote:I'm running .21 and none of the commercials in any of my shows are ever detected. Back when I was running 20.2 it worked great. When I look at MythWeb it appears that the job was ran and completed fine. I have "All Available Methods" selected and "Strict Commercial Detection" turned off. Out of probably the 50 shows I've recorded so far not one has had a single commercial detected. I tried searching on Google and on this list but I couldn't find anyone with a similar problem. Any ideas?
> > 
> > 
> > Are they not being detected or are they not being skipped when played back, even though they were detected.
> > When you go into edit mode, do you see breaks marked on the timeline?
> > Have you tried turning strict detection on?
> > beww
> > 
> > Matt Clifton wrote:
> > They aren't being detected at all. Shows that were flagged before I started having this problem still skip commercials fine. Oddly, when I hit "z" when playing back a problem recording it says "Not flagged" although when highlighting the show in the recordings section, it has the icon that shows it has been flagged. In mythweb after the the flagging job has run it always says "0 commercial breaks found." I have not tried turning on "Strict Commercial Detection" because I'm under the impression that it typically would find less commercials when thats on (if the flagging was working in the first place). I can try turning it on if that might make a difference.
> > 
> 
> 1. Make sure your database is not corrupt.  Run mysqlcheck against it.
> 2. Try running mythcommflag from the command line with a verbose 
> debugging level against one of your problem recordings, and see what 
> it's complaining about.
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