[mythtv-users] Commercial detection and PVR-250?

[Ralf Haller]

Is it possible to start the commercial detection manually on programs 
already recorded?

Ralf

Chris Pinkham wrote:

>Actually, the mythcommflag executable is not required but can be used by people
>who want to have a little bit more control over when commercials are flagged.
>If you turn on "Auto Commercial Flagging" in the mythfrontend setup, then
>immediately after a recording is finished, it will be "played" in the
>background and flagged.  This flagging process is run with a very low
>priority so it does not hinder any other recordings which may be in progress.
>If you want to run all your flagging on a faster machine or a machine other
>than the backend which recorded a video, then turn make sure the auto-flagging
>is turned off and just run mythcommflag from the command line or cron every
>so often.  "mythcommflag --help" will give more help but you don't need
>to give it any command line options just to flag new recordings which haven't
>been flagged yet.
>
>For people who use software encoding myth will scan for blank frames during
>the recording process and generate a quick commercial skip list once the
>recording finishes, but it's still better to turn on the auto-flagging in
>combination with the "Blank Frame with Scene Change Detection" commercial
>detection method since it's more accurate.
>
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>
>>All of the commercial detection is now done by a external executable that gets 
>>run after the recording is finished, so no matter what your input is, it will 
>>work.  But you'll have to wait a little bit for it to finish before you watch 
>>your shows, but it's the same for the normal capture users too.
>>
>>On Wednesday 18 June 2003 09:57, Curtis Stanford wrote:
>>    
>>
>>>Simple question. Since there is no raw video feed that Mythtv can see using
>>>a PVR-250, does the commercial detection work with a 250?
>>>      
>>>
>
>Chris
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