[mythtv-users] Why has no one implemented subtext commercial filtering?

Paul Gardiner lists at glidos.net
Fri Apr 17 08:11:07 UTC 2009


jedi wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 09:29:11AM -0700, David Brodbeck wrote:
>> I think part of the reason there's not a lot of enthusiasm for this is  
>> commercial detection already works very well for most people, at least  
>> in the U.S.  For most shows I watch the accuracy is well over 90%.  That  
>> makes putting in a lot of work to improve it by a few percentage points  
>> not very appealing.
> 
>    I would like to chime in with a "me too". Commercial detection already
> works very well in MythTV. With the exception of a few shows that like to
> make "explosive" scene transitions, we can leave skipping on all the time
> and generally don't even have to be aware of these odd things called
> commercials.

Doesn't work well in the UK. Works fairly well for a few channels, but
generally not.

P.



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