[mythtv-users] Daddy, what's a commercial
Brad DerManouelian
myth at dermanouelian.com
Fri Jan 12 16:07:42 UTC 2007
On Jan 12, 2007, at 6:32 AM, Mark A. Hoover wrote:
>
>> From: David Brodbeck <gull at gull.us>
>>
>> I was initially using Blank Frame Detection. It was very fast, but I
>> found the accuracy unacceptably bad. Part of this is because I do
>> watch
>> a lot of shows with fade-to-black transitions. ("Intervention" on
>> A&E
>> is a good example of a show where Blank Frame Detection fails
>> miserably.)
>
> Sci-Fi is even worse about this. I had to resort to manually
> marking the
> commercials and even that doesn't completely help. I've noticed that
> Sci-Fi at times will have no blank frames between the commercials
> and the
> show. Even worse is that they'll bleed the sound from the
> commercial into
> the TV show or vice versa.
>
> I haven't tried "All Methods" yet, guess I'll have to go back and look
> into it.
Logo detection works REALLY well on sci-fi channel. I wish there was
a way to specify commercial detection methods per channel so we can
mix and match.
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