[mythtvnz] Commercial detection

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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Stephen Worthington" <stephen_agent at jsw.gen.nz>
To: "MythTV in NZ" <mythtvnz at lists.linuxnut.co.nz>
Sent: Friday, January 15, 2010 10:46 PM
Subject: Re: [mythtvnz] Commercial detection


> On Tue, 12 Jan 2010 21:21:33 +1300, you wrote:
>
>>James Gray wrote:
>>> Iirc there are a number of different ways it uses to identify them...
>>> Commercials do have less dynamic range, which makes then seem louder
>>
>>http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Commflagging
>>It does not seem that volume is used. If you are really keen, you could
>>write something that does:
>>http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/How_to_write_a_new_method_of_commercial_detection
>>
>>Commercial detection worked really well for me in the past, but recently
>>(9.10?) it doesn't seem to catch any of them.
>
> With Mythbuntu 9.10 I have found that commercial detection only works
> reasonably on some Sky channels I record as MPEG2 using an S-Video
> input from my Sky decoder.  It is pretty useless for the FreeviewHD
> channels (DVB-T).  I am wondering if it is a Mythbuntu 9.10 problem, a
> MythTV 0.22 problem, or maybe just that the detection does not work
> well with DVB-T H.264 recordings.
>
> _______________________________________________

When there is an abundance of those recording types in the US where most of the devs seem to reside there will likely be more focus 
on that, however if the work is anything like getting vdpau stable I'd not be encouraging any breath holding!