While the commercial detection is very good (perhaps my favourite feature), I have noticed that since the upgrade to .17 (and using the All method), it tends to skip over the last 5 or 6 minutes of many shows I watch. Big candidates for this include Carson Daly, and The Daily Show. Both of these shows go for a final 2 minute commercial break, then come back for a final 30 - 90 second goodye, then the credits roll and there's commercials again.
In almost every recording of Daily Show, it skips right over the last 5 or 6 mins of the recording, right to the end of the show, and sometimes hangs up MythTV requiring a kill and restart of Myth :( It seems to be, if commercial skip skips to the end of the recording, freezing is highly likely (on my system). Add to this the inability to skip back before a commercial (since it does the auto-leap forward repeatedly if you try to jump back over a flagged break) and I pretty much have to stop playing the show, start it from the start, turn off the auto-skip then jump to the end of the show to see the final bit. Sometimes with a complete Myth restart in there. I am not complaining, just adding to the info in this thread. I continue to be blown away by MythTV and wish I had the chops to be able to contribute in some way, but I am no developer. Much respect is due to everyone who contributes to this project. Robin On Sat, 05 Mar 2005 11:39:04 -0400, stephen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Chris Pinkham wrote: > >>>How about a configurable feature for Commercial flagging that will not > >>>save any 'supposed' commercials over xx minutes. I have been having good > >>>luck with commercial flagging lately but there is an occasional > >>>commercial that is flagged and is over 5 or 6 minutes and is bogus. I > >>>think most of my commercials are only a few minutes long so ignoring > >>>ones longer than that would cut out some bad commercial flagging. > >> > >>Along similar lines, I've had a "commercial break" that was 0:00 long. > >>It ended up getting itself into a rather tight loop of skip 0:00 > >>(actually went backwards a bit), play, see 0:00 break, skip, repeat. So > >>another nice add would be a minimum commercial break length. > > > > > > The ALL commercial detection method should prevent commercial breaks less > > than 60 seconds (1 minute) and more than 485 seconds (1 minute 5 seonds) > > long. > > > > The other detection methods may still have cases where this can occur, > > I haven't spent as much time on them lately. I made a note to check them > > sometime, but if you're not using the ALL method, you should try it out > > since that is where the majority of detection effort is being put now. > > Hi, > > I've been using the "All" method since I upgraded to .17, and I still > occasionally see short false positives (9 or 11 seconds). I think the > idea of a user setting for min/max commercial break length would be kind > of handy. > > Also, I see from the setup menu that it uses blank frame, scene change, > and logo detection (and combinations) to find the breaks. Are any other > methods used (and just not listed)? Specifically, I was thinking of > volume level -- a lot of channels will ratchet up the volume during a > commercial break. If it is possible to get an average volume level for > the program, detecting big jumps/drops in volume could come in handy > (along with the other methods currently being used). Of course, this > may already be included ... > > That being said, the commercial detection in MythTV is very good ... one > of the [many] reasons I don't like watching regular TV any more! > > thanks, > Stephen > > > _______________________________________________ > mythtv-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users > > >
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