[mythtv-users] Commercial Skip Questions

[Sean]

I remember reading someplace that the producers of CSI actually took Tivo
type devices in mind in the programming (starts at 7:59 CST instead of 8)
and they butt the show directly against the commercials leaving 1 or 2
frames of black only.
Chris, I am definitely NOT criticizing your work (or any of the MythTV
experience) but I am interested in placing markers in myself for when I
transcode.

-Sean


>>> First let me say that commercial skipping was not on my list of 
wow

>>> factors when I envisioned my MythTV expererience.
>>> 
>>> That was, until, I started using it. Wow. However, as good as the system
>>> is it doesnt work 100% of the time (Anyone watch CSI from last night?).
>>> I get the impression that there is another program out there that will
>>> let me edit the commercial markers. How can I do this? Is it part of the
>>> MythTV interface?
> 
> I haven't watched that CSI yet, so I'll try to see how accurate the
> commercial detection worked and see what it missed and why.  I have
> noticed it mess up on CSI before and saved one episode from a few weeks
> ago but hadn't had a chance to do much debugging on it yet.
> 
> 
>> Yeah, I have to turn off auto commercial advance when I'm watching CSI.
>>  I guess they use blank frames within the show, and that confuses
>> MythTV?
> 
> Ahh, brave soul.  I wrote the commercial detection code and I don't even
> leave auto-skip turned on. :)  I'll try to put some time into debugging
> this sometime soon.  It has been bugging me a little, but most of the time
> I just blame it on letting my wife control the remote. :)