[mythtv-users] Commercial Flagging (UK, DVB-T)

Michael Watson michael at thewatsonfamily.id.au
Fri Oct 26 12:34:23 UTC 2012


On 26/10/2012 3:04 PM, Anthony Giggins wrote:
>
>
> On 26 October 2012 09:47, Roger Siddons <dizygotheca at ntlworld.com 
> <mailto:dizygotheca at ntlworld.com>> wrote:
>
>     On Thu, 25 Oct 2012 23:23:22 +0100, Mark Greenwood
>     <fatgerman at gmail.com <mailto:fatgerman at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     > In all the years I've used mythtv (every release from 0.22 to
>     0.26) it
>     > has *never* detected a commercial break. I've had about 3 false
>     > detections, and that's it. I know it must work for other people
>     so my
>     > question is, for all UK users, what settings do you use to make
>     it work?
>
>     I had the same experience with mythcommflag when I tried it (some
>     time ago).
>
>     However, have you tried
>     http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Mythcommflag-wrapper ? I find the
>     silence-detect method works brilliantly most of the time.
>
>     The wiki version is for 0.24. I remember having to modify it for
>     0.25 (IIRC the setcutlist options moved from mythcommflag to
>     mythutil). I haven't tried it on 0.26 yet.
>
>  silence-detect
>  works pretty well in Australia too on most channels however the 
> default commflag and the silent-detect are pretty useless on the HD 
> Channels.

What settings do you use for silence detect in Australia?  I had very 
got very poor results when I played with it
>
> would be nice to see silent-detect added to the inbuilt commflagging 
> as it could benefit from black screens and logo detection.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Anthony
>



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