On 11/29/05, <b class="gmail_sendername">Ben Edwards</b> <<a href="mailto:funkytwig@gmail.com">funkytwig@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<div><span class="gmail_quote"></span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Have found a few references to commercial flagging and its got me<br>interested. I cant however find mutch info on it. I guess my first<br>question is how well douse it work and also how doues it work but a<br>general page on it world be good.
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The term "Commercial Flagging" pretty much sums it up, it flags commericial breaks. if you<br>
want details on how it does the flagging, looking at CVS commit logs would be the best way<br>
to get an up-to-date answer on which tricks it is using for discrimination. I remember reading<br>
that it looks for blank frames at least.<br>
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Once a commercial segment is flagged, you can tell myth to do whatever you'd like with it:<br>
notify you that it is a commercial segment, automatically skip over it, or allow you to press a<br>
button (by default home/end) to skip past it. Also, when exporting video, you can save the frame<br>
numbers of the tagged commercials for automatic removal.<br>
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It generally works very well with most shows. Every so often it will skip something that is not<br>
a commercial (usually when the show is very dark, it think that they are blank frames when they are<br>
not), or it will miss a commercial, but with a 30 second skip forward and 5 second skip back, it's<br>
easy to adjust for it.<br>