[mythtv] PATCH: Commercial detection/skip using blank frames

[Jason Ramey]

I had almost identical experiences. I wasn't able to use the automatic
commercial skip as it seemed to cause my system to jitter a little,
video wise. Audio was fine. Using the Z key worked fine. Only big issue
I saw was that after every recording was done that I used commercial
skip, mythfrontend crashed. 

Jason Ramey
webmaster at permutation.org

-----Original Message-----
From: mythtv-dev-bounces at snowman.net
[mailto:mythtv-dev-bounces at snowman.net] On Behalf Of Matthew Brichacek
Sent: Friday, February 21, 2003 3:40 PM
To: Development of mythtv
Subject: Re: [mythtv] PATCH: Commercial detection/skip using blank
frames


I applied this patch and tried it out over my lunch hour.  I had the
daily show and futurama for testing.

When watching futurama from cartoon network, they use these funny clips
before and after a commercial break, they are clips of different shows
and sometimes the current show, then they wipe it off the screen to the
top or the bottom.  The commercial skip patch makes it past the first
one, but of course doesn't make it past the second one since it wipes to
the show instead of having blank frames.

The daily show was a different story.  For some reason it would only
skip the first 2 commercials, then I would have to hit "Z" to skip each
commercial after that.  The only pattern I could come up with was most
the commercials it had problems with were ones inserted by the local
cable provider.

I had about 2 minutes left to run some tests on Seinfeld from last night
on FOX.  It seemed to skip all the commercials OK.

Thats about all I have so far.

Matt


On Fri, 2003-02-21 at 12:40, Andy Davidoff wrote:
> Thanks Chris, I'm anxious to test this patch -- almost as anxious as I

> am to receive my TV tuner. ;-)
> 
> Possible directions to take this work further:
> 	- A flag for channels which indicates whether we should
auto-skip
> 	  commercials.  This flag would be off for movie channels, for
example.
> 	- Automagic marking of commercials in the stream as viewed by
the OSD.
> 	- A flag to toggle automagic editing of recordings to elide 
> commercials.
> 
> This is promising stuff!
> 
> 
> #if Chris Pinkham /* Feb 21, 10:55 */
> > Attached is a much better implemention of the commercial skipping 
> > patch I uploaded earlier this week.  I've been using this for a 
> > couple nights.
> #endif /* cpinkham at bc2va.org */ 
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