[mythtv-users] Commercial Detection

[Mario L]

I was having similar problems with my new addiction Nip/Tuck.  I have
decided to just go on what commercial detection has been finding &
just creating a cut list before I watch the show.  Hell, it takes 5-10
minutes to put together a cutlst & the show doesnt break when suddenly
a commercial is detected 5 seconds long when Christian and Julia start
to make out (Megan O'hare episode), or a 3 second commercial break
while Juila walks in on Matt's 3 some.  Its probably better this way,
it forces me to perfect all the commercial breaks before I get ready
to burn to DVD, intead of just go on the breaks that are still a
little bit off.

On Sun, 27 Mar 2005 12:54:07 -0500, aaron <memoryguy at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
> I don't mean this to be a complaint, but rather more of a data point...
> 
> On Jan 17, there was a fairly major revamping of the way commerical
> detection works. I found that with this new code, detection was
> working better than I ever imagined was possible.
> 
> Then, on Jan 23, there was a modification to the "brightness
> thresholds". With this change, the commercial detection was still VERY
> good, but not as good as the Jan 17 version.
> 
> Since then, other changes were made, including some sort of
> aspect-ratio detection, I think. I've found that with the current
> version, detection isn't as good as it was even prior to Jan 17.
> 
> It works really well on some shows, especially ones that are
> letterboxed, but on others it looks almost random sometimes. A couple
> of shows that used to detect really well no longer detect well. For
> example, Jeopardy (you can stop laughing now :) . The first couple of
> breaks detect fine, but the Final Jeopardy round is detected as a
> commercial now so that, essentially, the show ends after Double
> Jeopardy. It does this consistently now, night after night. With the
> "old" version of the commercial detection, all the commercials were
> detected correctly.
> 
> I don't know what to suggest for how to improve it. I'm sure the
> current version is working great for some people. But for me, it's not
> as good as it used to be. And it's not as good as I know it can be.
> 
> --
> aaron
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