On Tue, Sep 1, 2009 at 3:27 AM, Yeechang Lee <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ylee@pobox.com">ylee@pobox.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
MythTV's commflagging has worked quite well for me for almost four<br>
years, with very few false positives or false negatives. (I use All<br>
Methods and Strict on -fixes.) But it managed to impress me again<br>
today.<br>
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I began recording from CNBC HD a few days ago. For those who haven't<br>
seen it, various scrolling banners, charts, and other data occupy one<br>
third of the screen at all times. Nonetheless, mythcommflag accurately<br>
picks up the commercial breaks. How in the world does it do this? I<br>
know it can't be the logo detection; is it the blank frames?<br></blockquote><div><br> </div>I set the maximum commercial skip to 5 minutes to get rid of the occasional way too far jump, with that it works great for me most of the time. The big exception is when there's a thunderstorm or some other weather event and the local channels deem it necessary to put a graphic up on the screen about it, that basically renders the flagging useless.<br>
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