[mythtvnz] Commercial Flagging

[tortise]

On 18/08/2011 12:07 p.m., David Moore wrote:
> I tried commflagging a couple of times but wasn't happy with results.
> For me it's useless if it isn't 100% reliable. From what I've seen there
> is considerable variation in the way the broadcasters transition to/from
> ads so I don't think commflagging will ever be 100%. It even seems that
> individual channels vary from time to time let alone considering the
> differences between channels. Hmm. Since it's not in the interest of the
> free-to-air broadcasters for us to easily skip ads maybe they actively
> work at defeating automatic commflagging?
>
> David
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I think it might be more related to the developers not having access to 
the equivalent of our 1080i transmissions to test on, I expect that if 
they did then they would tend to it.  (Samples could be forwarded 
however I am not sure if anyone is interested and the size of the files 
is not that helpful either.