[mythtv-users] Commercial Flagging (UK, DVB-T)
John
reidjr at lineone.net
Mon Oct 29 12:46:20 UTC 2012
On 29/10/12 12:36, John wrote:
> On 28/10/12 11:14, Gareth Glaccum wrote:
>> *From:* Anthony Giggins <mailto:seven at seven.dorksville.net>
>> > In all the years I've used mythtv (every release from 0.22 to
>> 0.26) it
>> > has *never* detected a commercial break. I've had about 3 false
>> > detections, and that's it. I know it must work for other people
>> so my
>> > question is, for all UK users, what settings do you use to make
>> it work?
>> Which channels must make a large difference. For me, the defaults
>> have worked fine since I think 0.19.
>> I make sure to mark BBC as non-commercial channels (although the
>> number of adverts they now run I might change this).
>> I get decent commflag detection on 3,5,11,12,21
>>
>>
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> Gareth,
>
> Which defaults ? Are you talking about default mythcommflag, with "all
> available methods" ?
>
> Similar to OP I've never found commercial skipping to be worth doing,
> more errors than successes.
>
> 3,5,11,12,21 == ITV1,Channel5,picktv,dave,viva ??
>
> Just re-run on ITV1 and still see terrible results :-( On a 2 hour
> ITV1 "Lewis" episode, algorithm picks up the rubbish before program
> start perfectly, then finds 2 more adverts during the show, there are
> actually about 6, both the ones it does pick up included significant
> amounts of the episode itself.
>
> Not complaining it doesn't work :-), just interested that it seems to
> work for you.
>
> I also tried mythcommflag wrapper, that tended to be over
> enthusiastic, and find lots of small adverts all the way through.
> Maybe I need to start watching American shows with continuous laugh
> tracks ;-)
>
>
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Just for laughs: Same episode found 127 adverts with
mythcommflag-wrapper. :-)
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