[mythtv-users] Hauppauge MediaMVP

[Bob]

Chris Pinkham wrote:
>>>Can you automatically skip commercials? Manually FF/REW? 
>>
>>Yep and yep.  Very nice.  My daughters were surprised to 
> 
> I believe the answer to the first question is a NO.  Support
> was added to the Myth protocol to query the commercial skip
> list, but it was never implemented on the mvpmc end of things.
> This is one of the biggest reasons I hardly use mine.  The
> mvpmc can not automatically skip or even manually skip
> commercials using the MythTV commercial skip information.  You
> can however use the FFWD key to skip over a commercial
> manually, but if I liked doing that I never would have written
> commecial detection for Myth.  I have 2 mvpmc boxes and the
> lack of commercial skip is the big thing keeping me from using
> them much.  I'd rather go into a different room to watch a
> recording on a real mythfrontend than have to manually skip
> commercials. :)

I love commercial detection, thanks for your work. One thing I’ve been 
thinking about is whether it would be possible for a transcode type 
process to put the detected commercials (and preferably have some scene 
detection as well) in as chapters.  So when your watching exported 
programs if you hit the skip button you jump to the next scene or 
advert, this would make it possible to export files for the Mrs without 
having to actually watch / fine tune the comm detection, this will do 
wonders for the WAF and would stop me from having to watch Sex in the 
bloody City.

Do MPEG 2 or 4 files (probably in an AVI container) support chapters or 
is that just DVD structures?