[Ronno6]

I have not pursued using only EDL files any further, as per a successful setup recommended to me in the SageTV forum I have set up DirMon2 and SA to use both TXT and EDL files. I really see no difference at this time to the results when using TXT files only. Somewhere along the line I had gotten the impression that EDL is more dependable, but I haven't seen any indication of that.

EDL files are being generated, with content being shown in bytes, but I have not attempted to open them.

Using Schoolhouse I have analyzed some errors in detection, but not all. One segment went as one continuous commercial 240 seconds in length. There actually were several commercials in the segment, but no intermediate markers. I cannot figure out why the segment was considered to be one continuous commercial my SA. I reset the commercial length limit parameter from 180sec to 250sec to compensate. Other segments mark breaks within a segment, but do not include these as commercials. Can it be that there are no TXT or EDL files to be generated for these particular commercials within the segment? Are networks or advertisers becoming increasingly tricky in this regard?

As I lack the rudimentary knowledge to understand what TXT or EDL files actually are, I am at a loss to further diagnose the problem there.