[mythtvnz] Commercial flagging / skipping

[Criggie]

Steve V wrote, On 29/05/13 10:21:
> Hi,
>
> is anyone using commercial flagging and skipping in  New Zealand?
> Is it working well?
>
> Many years ago I was successfully using commercial skipping, I think 
> it was successful on most of my recordings maybe 80%.
> Then at some point it became pretty unusable. I think the main reason 
> for the change was that we got more HD channels in NZ and the 
> commercial skipping did not work as well (or not at all from memory) 
> on the HD recordings.
>
> I ended up removing all commercial flagging jobs, there wasn't much 
> point having the backend grinding away to create flagged recordings 
> when the result was very inaccurate.
>
> Anyway just wondering what the latest experience is.
>

Works well enough for us on SD freeview satellite.
Then again I haven't watched TV for the last six months, our mythbox 
mostly records kids programmes.

Sharp cuts to black (ie lightning or similar) seem to confuse it the most.


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Criggie

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