[mythtv-users] Commercial Flagging, what are the best

[Steve Adeff]

On Tuesday 13 December 2005 12:04, Beny Spensieri Jr wrote:
> >From: Phil Bridges <gravityhammer at gmail.com>
> >On 12/13/05, Beny Spensieri Jr <benyjr at yahoo.ca>
>
> wrote:
> >> I have found that the commercial flagging feature
>
> of
>
> >> Mythtv is not doing a great job of flagging
> >> commercials.  As a result, playback is not skipping
> >> the commercials as I have indicated.
> >>
> >> Any advise on what combination of settings will
> >> produce the most accurate commercial detection?
> >>
> >> Thanks,
> >>
> >> Beny
> >
> >Just out of curiosity - have you set the frontend to
> >automatically
> >skip commercials?  Are you using the 'z' key to skip?
> >
> >What are your current detection settings?
>
> I initially set it to blank frame detection, which
> didn't work very well.  Then I set it to blank frame +
> scene change, this is also not great.
>
> I have now set commercial detection to ALL, but I have
> yet to record and test anything yet.
>
> I have set playback to automatically skip the
> commercials.
>
> Anything else?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Beny

I have mine set to ALL currently with manual skipping and find it to be quite 
accurate on about 90% of the channels I've recorded with about 75% accuracy 
on the last 10%. It seems to sometimes find too many or not enough commercial 
points when it gets it wrong.

I'm in the U.S.

-- 
Steve