Last week I talked about how I moved away from Lifextender and moved back to DTB and started using Show Analyzer for Commercial detection. Well take that all back, sort of. I am still using Show Analyzer for commercial detection, however I am back to using lifextender as I have found it to be more user friendly and less resource intensive during my prime time TV viewing hours, of 7pm to 10pm.

I found that my CPU usage was getting excessively high, and that playback from time to time was lagging and juttery, well I found that one too many instances of DTB were running and causing the slow downs. I tried to find a way to only process the recorded tv shows, say at 1am, but I honestly couldn’t find anything for DTB to allow me to do that. So reluctantly I went back to using Lifextender as I can set it to run at 1am while nothing is being recorded, and no one is using the pc.

This time I am using Show Analyzer with Lifextender which so far has done a much better job of commercial detecting over comskip. If anyone has a way of setting DTB to only process shows at a given time (1am) so that the next day when the PC is used again, I can still get the commercial skipping as needed.

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- Josh