Is it possible to skip recording of commercials? I'm interested in purchasing a PVR-250/350; is this device capable?
How do devices that support this feature detect commercials? I wonder if it has something to do with the rating system -- I think I noticed my Radeon 9700 AIW (in Windows) display the rating before and after commercials. It's been a long time since I've used it though.
The commercial detection algorithms are built into MythTV not the capture card. When the program has finished recording I believe a program runs over it which flags the commercials. This is based on things like detecting blank frames, scene changes and stuff like that. It's not based on displaying the rating.
Then when you watch it it either pops up a commercial detected message on screen or skips it automatically, depending on your preferences. In Australia a few of us have been having problems with the accuracy of the commercial detection so I don't have auto-skip set.
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