[mythtv-users] Re: Re: commercial skip/flagging - how well does it

[Duncan Sargeant]

Chris Pinkham wrote on Mon August 11, at 23:56 -0400:
> > > manually (if Q doesn't take me back to where I was).  I wonder whether
> > > it would be sensible to have an upper limit for skip - say about 300
> > > seconds (commercials don't usually last longer than that).
> > 
> > Uh huh.  What planet are you watching TV on?  I might wanna join you.  :)  
> > Here on mine, late nite TV often goes over five minute commercial breaks
> > in the back half of a movie.  Better up that to seven or eight minutes.
> 
> The blank-frame detection code that is used during the auto-flagging thread
> does not have a max.  It just keeps checking for what it thinks are
> commercials and flags all of them.  The on-the-fly blank frame detection
> code has a 300 second limit on the commercial length.

I must admit I'm confused about the differences.  I couldn't find any
docs, so I was just blindly playing with the settings.  Just read
the source now, which makes things a bit clearer.

Is there a way to do the on-the-fly stuff without automatically
skipping?

,dunc