[mythtv-users] Commercial Flagging (UK, DVB-T)

[Anthony Giggins]

On 6 March 2013 02:50, Roger Siddons <dizygotheca at ntlworld.com> wrote:

> On Tue, 05 Mar 2013 10:20:38 -0000, <phipps-hutton at sky.com> wrote:
>
>  I get a segfualt at the end that is fixed with this patch:
>>
>>
> Good spot. What logging are you using? Have you tweaked it further? And
> how did you detect this ?
> It occurs on the last line and doesn't affect functionality but I'm
> concerned that I don't see any indication of this on my system, even though
> it must be segfaulting every time.
>
>
>
>> I've not used this very long but is it waiting for the next set of
>> silences before recording the last advert break? It just seems to take
>> longer to record a break than I was expecting.
>>
>>
> It does. On a typical programme, this design will only flag the 1st advert
> when it reaches the 2nd. It seemed elegant when only comflagging completed
> recordings, which is what I did until a couple of days ago.
> I rarely watch in-progress recordings and only tacked this on as a result
> of our recent discussions. So it is currently rubbish at flagging
> in-progress recordings!
> I'm currently re-designing it to work effectively - v2 ETA ~1 week.
>
> Moreover, I noticed yesterday that a comflagging job still doesn't flag a
> programme that you're watching (for my shoddy testing I only ran the script
> manually). I was hoping to get v2 out before anyone noticed, but the fix
> for that is to change silence.py #156 to:
>
>     # player update message needs prog id (with time in Qt::ISODate format)
>     progId = str(chanid) + '_' + str(starttime).replace(' ','T')
>
>
> Hi Roger,

how did you determin your silence.presets?

trial and error or do you have some script you can run over recordings?

I find this works fine with the defaults on most Australian channels but
there are a few which it detects no ad's. ie.Nine Digital

Cheers,

Anthony
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