[mythtv-users] Commercial Detection

[Mike Perkins]

On 08/03/12 09:01, Simon Waldman wrote:
>> Date: Wed, 7 Mar 2012 21:20:42 +0000
>> From: Joe Nyland<joe at joenyland.co.uk>
>> Subject: [mythtv-users] Commercial Detection
>
>> I've been looking into commercial detection over the past few days, but I've had no success with it.
>>
>> Is this working ok for other UK users? (I'm NW near Manchester, if it helps) or is it more reliable outside of the UK?
>
> On UK Freeview I find that it works, but not reliably. I let it run
> because it identifies perhaps half of commercial breaks (heavily
> dependant on channel and show), but for the other half I have to
> fast-forward manually. When there's an iffy signal, it fails more
> often.
>
We've discussed this in the past, although things may have changed since then. 
Detection of commercials (adverts) tends to vary by channel. What may work 100% 
on ITV1, for example, may not work so well on Channel 4 or 5 (and vice versa).

I remember someone proposed building a list of 'things that worked' by channel 
and using that as input to the commercial detection system. I don't know if that 
ever got anywhere.

As most advert breaks are 4 minutes it is relatively easy to skip them with the 
remote, so personally I don't bother with running any detection code on my 
recordings.

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Mike Perkins