[mythtv-users] How Does Commercial Flagging Work?

Brad DerManouelian myth at dermanouelian.com
Fri May 9 18:52:27 UTC 2008


On May 9, 2008, at 11:21 AM, Big Wave Dave wrote:

> On Fri, May 9, 2008 at 11:17 AM, Jeff Clark <jeff at vacantcanvas.com>  
> wrote:
>> Talking to one of my friends who also runs a Myth box, we are amazed
>> by the quality of the commercial flagging.
>>
>> But neither one of us can come up with a good idea about how it
>> actually works!
>>
>> Any ideas?  Is there something in the broadcast or does it base it  
>> off
>> of something on the screen, etc?
>>
>> Jeff
> You may want to start by looking at:
> http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/index.php/Commflagging
>
> The "configuration" section gives some hints of what is going on.

And then look at the source code. It will tell you *exactly* how it  
does it.
C isn't that hard to read. Much more difficult to program than to  
read, anyway.



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