I find that it detects actual commercials quite well but sometimes does a false commercial break. For that reason I turn off automatic skip and have a button programmed on the remote to skip forward and another to skip back that way if it screws up and marks the last 10 minutes of the show I can jump back and then use the FF and RWD buttons to jump thru the bad detection. Works quite well and wife acceptance factor is 100% now that she is properly trained :) She sees the start of a commerical and loves the fact she can hit one button and skip them all.
> -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of aaron > Sent: Sunday, March 27, 2005 12:54 PM > To: Discussion about mythtv > Subject: [mythtv-users] Commercial Detection > > > Hi, > I don't mean this to be a complaint, but rather more of a > data point... > > On Jan 17, there was a fairly major revamping of the way > commerical detection works. I found that with this new code, > detection was working better than I ever imagined was possible. > > Then, on Jan 23, there was a modification to the "brightness > thresholds". With this change, the commercial detection was > still VERY good, but not as good as the Jan 17 version. > > Since then, other changes were made, including some sort of > aspect-ratio detection, I think. I've found that with the > current version, detection isn't as good as it was even prior > to Jan 17. > > It works really well on some shows, especially ones that are > letterboxed, but on others it looks almost random sometimes. > A couple of shows that used to detect really well no longer > detect well. For example, Jeopardy (you can stop laughing now > :) . The first couple of breaks detect fine, but the Final > Jeopardy round is detected as a commercial now so that, > essentially, the show ends after Double Jeopardy. It does > this consistently now, night after night. With the "old" > version of the commercial detection, all the commercials were > detected correctly. > > I don't know what to suggest for how to improve it. I'm sure > the current version is working great for some people. But for > me, it's not as good as it used to be. And it's not as good > as I know it can be. > > -- > aaron > _______________________________________________ > mythtv-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://mythtv.org/cgi-> bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users >
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