[mythtv-users] Commercial skipping

[Brad Templeton]

On Sun, Jun 25, 2006 at 04:39:43PM -0400, Steven Adeff wrote:
> On 6/25/06, mooshie <nsmith5 at umbc.edu> wrote:
> > For commercial skipping, does the "all" option mean that _every_
> > condition "blank screen, logo, scene change, etc" must be met, or just
> > one of those conditions? The first would mean that "all" is very
> > restrictive, while the latter would mean "all" is very liberal.. if I
> > had a guess I would guess that it's the latter
> 
> It means all methods are used to calculate the most likely commercial
> start/stop point. Each method is used in scanning and the positions
> each method finds are given points according to the likelyhood of that
> position being a commercial cut point, the positions with the most
> points are then flagged.

Does it try to be smart about certain things?   For example, once you
have detected that there is a logo on screen, logo detection should
be very accurate (understanding that logos fade-in and fade-out
in certain cases) and thus get a lot of points.  But of course if logos
aren't there, you won't get anything from them.   Or are there cases
where they forget to put up the logo after break?

(It amazes me that some things are not automated.  For example, the
switch from SD to HD is not automated.  Quite often they will come back
from a commercial break with the program in SD and then you will see a
reset and we're back to HD.)