[mythtvnz] Commercials flagging issues

[Liviu Dunaev]

Thank you for the fast response. 
I just wanted to make sure that I’m not missing anything. 
I do see that on some stations the flagging kind of works, I guess its better than not at all. 

Thanks again. 
Liviu

> On 14/01/2015, at 14:47, cmacneill at snap.net.nz wrote:
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> Hi Liviu,
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> For NZ set commercial flagging to use all detection methods, it does work, but can be a bit random as the TV stations are getting tricky over how they jump from program content to commercials and I guess that's in an effort to stop the commercial detection from working or people simply getting up at the end of a program and making a cup of tea!!
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> In the UK it was historically somewhat easier, as the main commercial channel there (ITV) used to have regional companies and they had to have a synchronisation blank/pause before and after commerical breaks to ensure the regions all started and stopped commericals at the same time. It's a while since I've been in the UK so may have changed as the region system disappeared some years ago.
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> I wish someone would pass a law forcing TV stations to properly flag commercials rather than the horrible mish mash of merging end titles and jumping straight from one program into the next. I guess that's the "price" we pay for "free" TV.
> 
> Regards
> 
> Chris
> 
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