[mythtv-users] mythcommflag not working

[Rob Owens]

----- Original Message -----
> From: "Carl Hunter" <cdhunter2 at yahoo.com>
> To: "Discussion about MythTV" <mythtv-users at mythtv.org>
> Sent: Wednesday, September 10, 2014 9:22:07 AM
> Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] mythcommflag not working
> 
> On 9/9/2014 2:09 PM, Gary Buhrmaster wrote:
> > Commercial detection is hard, and is constantly
> > getting harder as broadcasters intentionally try to
> > avoid commercials getting detected (they do not
> > want you to skip the commercials; that is how they
> > make money).  The algorithms of old probably
> > could use some TLC. I believe if someone wants to
> > invest (the likely considerable) effort to improve
> > commercial detection the devs have a stash of
> > samples from around the world to work with (what
> > works well in one country, or even for some
> > channels or providers may not work well in others),
> > so if you are serious about working with the code,
> > I would contact them for access to the stash.
> > As I recall, there are some alternative programs
> > out there that try to detect commercials, and
> > perhaps someone could examine them to see if
> > their ideas could be integrated into MythTV.
> > Personally, I just use the skip forward key.
> >
> 
> I've been using the skip forward key for a few years now.  I just know
> it was working well for me and my source hasn't changed.
> 
> Would an idea be to get mythcommflag from 0.24 compiling / working
> against a 0.27 database to do some comparing or is that not really
> possible since other dependencies have changed like maybe ffmpeg?
>

If anybody's still running older versions of MythTV, I could send you one of my problematic mpg files to test.  Or will mythcommflag not work if the video is not in the tester's database?

-Rob