[mythtv-users] mythcommflag logo detection does not work

Michael T. Dean mtdean at thirdcontact.com
Tue Dec 24 21:08:42 UTC 2013


On 12/24/2013 10:56 AM, Brian J. Murrell wrote:
> On Tue, 2013-12-24 at 10:24 -0500, Daryl McDonald wrote:
>> The STB is a cable company supplied "motorola DCT700" into a PVR-150
> Which is why this works so well.  This is that same known quantity that
> I was talking about in my posting that mythcommflag (ffmpeg really)
> knows how to deal with really well.
>
> So your experience is in fact adding support to my theory (which in and
> of itself might be preaching to the choir) about the content of already
> encoded streams fouling up mythcommflag.

Are you sure about that?

http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/users/560139#560139

>> My experience puts the blame on the redistributers. I record from a
>> STB and from an antenna (FTA), commflagging is near flawless from the
>> latter and 40%ish from the former

I read that to say that he gets near-flawless detection on his OTA 
(likely digital) recordings and only 40%-ish from the STB (which is a 
Motorola DCT700 outputting to a PVR-150).

Mike


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