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

Chris Pinkham cpinkham at bc2va.org
Tue Mar 29 20:11:54 UTC 2005


> Chris (and other developers working on mythcommflag),

> I just wanted to let you know that one network I seem to have more
> problems on than others is VH1.  I find that on quite a few of their

Thanks, I'll see if there is something I can record off there to test
with.

> Also, like mentioned above, some shows will put a 5 second teaser
> before or after a commercial break.  I know that Food Network does
> this alot and myth will detect it as part of the commericial only
> about 5% of the time. HTH.

Yeah, the 5-second spots don't have enough things to trigger the score
code to think they are commercials right now.  There are probably ways
I can tweak this though.

-- 

Chris



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