[mythtv-users] Commercial flagging on a sample basis

[Steve Smith]

On 25/03/2008, Mike Perkins <mikep at randomtraveller.org.uk> wrote:
> James Orr wrote:
>  > On Tue, Mar 25, 2008 at 11:32 AM, John Drescher <drescherjm at gmail.com> wrote:
>  >>> You can set a limit on how long commercial breaks are when skipping.  I
>  >> have
>  >>> mine set to 5 minutes, if the commercial break is longer it doesn't skip
>  >> and
>  >>> displays how long the break is.  If I still want to skip I can press the
>  >>> button again.
>  >>>
>  >>> Unfortunately this only seems to work when you are manually skipping, if
>  >> you
>  >>> set it to autoskip it ignores this and skips anyway.
>  >>>
>  >> I need that for transcoding so I can run mytharchive without loosing part
>  >> of the show..
>  >>
>  >
>  > You probably shouldn't transcode without manually creating a cut list.
>  > Commercial flagging is pretty good, but not perfect, I don't think it ever
>  > could be, one of those things that requires a human eye.
>  >
>  > Fortunately you can load the commercial flagging cuts into the editor and
>  > most of the editing is just moving the cut points slightly.  Usually takes me
>  > only a few minutes to setup a cut list.
>  >
>
> "Commercial flagging is pretty good, but not perfect". Yeah, in the US. in the
>  UK it's so iffy I gave up and have been manually marking segments by hand ever
>  since. Which I'd rather not have to do. Be nice if some of the methods that work
>  over *there* could be modified so they also work over *here*, not to mention
>  elsewhere. Just sayin'.
>
>
>  Mike Perkins
>
>
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Yea, never had any luck on UK channels. Has anybody?

Cheers
Steve