[mythtv-users] How well does commercial detection work?

Curtis Stanford curtis at stanfordcomputing.com
Sun Mar 27 22:11:05 UTC 2005


On Mar 27, 2005, at 3:04 PM, Alex Cruz wrote:

> On Sunday 27 March 2005 12:46 pm, SpikeyGG wrote:
>> Does anyone have the commercial detection working flawlessly (or is 
>> that
>> not possible)?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> -Greg
>
>
>  I'm using all modes of detction and I can say that it's pretty darn 
> close to
> perfect especially when using the auto skip commercial option. Like 
> someone
> else mentioned, those commercials that are inserted into the closing 
> credits
> (usually for the station like what Sci-Fi does) aren't detected. But 
> by that
> point, I'm already exiting from viewing the recording. As the saying 
> goes,
> "Your mileage may vary" but, it sure beats the hell out of a VCR  :-)
>
>
I've been using the All option since it was introduced and, I have to 
agree that it was MUCH better then than it is now. Must be sensitive to 
the type of signal or something.

Curtis



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