Opened 17 years ago

Closed 17 years ago

#4007 closed defect (worksforme)

automatic commercial skipping does not work for lengths greater than 5 minutes.

Reported by: anonymous Owned by: cpinkham
Priority: minor Milestone: unknown
Component: mythtv Version: unknown
Severity: medium Keywords:
Cc: Ticket locked: no

Description

Originally bugged in Mythtv (Ubuntu) on Launchpad https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/mythtv/+bug/128100

Binary package hint: mythtv

Commercial removal works brilliantly (set to agressive), but several of the TV stations have commercial breaks in excess of 5 minutes (they do not seem to exceed 6 minutes) which are not removed. There is a GUI setting for commercial lengths. It's allegedly measured in seconds, but the setting is 3600. 5 minutes in seconds is 300, so it's not a 10x mistake. 3600 seconds is one hour. ... the recordings which have two-three almost-6-minute breaks are about 55 minutes to start with.

Regars,

Nicolai

Thomas Mashos wrote:

AFAIK, the only 3600 commercial skip setting is for manual commercial skips. It says this in the GUI, that it does not affect auto commercial skipping. Are the entire commercial breaks not removed, or just the last minute of commercials?

The entire commercials are not removed. Automatic removal very nicely removes 3-5 other commercial breaks, but not those that are longer than 5.0 minutes.

Thanks,

Nicolai

Change History (2)

comment:1 Changed 17 years ago by cpinkham

Owner: changed from Isaac Richards to cpinkham

comment:2 Changed 17 years ago by cpinkham

Resolution: worksforme
Status: newclosed

Unable to replicate this issue. I just setup an 18 minute commercial in recordedmarkup and the Auto-Skip feature in Myth's player gladly skipped it automatically.

Perhaps these long breaks are not being detected. There is another hidden setting that the flagger uses called CommDetectMaxCommBreakLength? which is set to 395 which equates to 6 minutes 35 seconds. I talked about it in ticket #4000. http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/commits/291640#291640

If you have other issues or questions about this, take them to the -users mailing list and I'll be glad to help or check into it further if you can provide some debug logs.

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