[mythtv] Commercial Flagging Idea

[Mike Benoit]

On Wed, 2005-07-06 at 15:19 +0200, Lucas Meijer wrote:
> Ant Daniel wrote:
> 
> > Commercials having subtitles shouldn't be a problem.
> > 
> > You can do a text search (or hash the text) and determine that it's a
> > commercial (once a commercial has been previously identified) would
> > require people to identify commercials and the system 'learn' or to
> > download previously identified commercial text.
> 
> heh. shouldn't be a problem. I guess you're assuming infinite devtime 
> available here. making a learning system, wether people share their 
> "learnings" online or not has been discussed before, and just is a lot 
> of work.
> 
> If it regularly happens that commercials have subtitles, or even worse 
> that shows don't have them, while commercials do, this is a problem. Not 
> necisseraly the end of the world.. The info can be taken into account in 
> the big "look at everything and make the best guess" function, but 
> subtitles being "flipped" would have a negative impact on accuracy for sure.
> 

How is this bad at all? You can easily tell the difference between the
show and commercials. The commercials usually only account for 1/3 of
the time. The show, 2/3's or thereabouts.

Assuming an exact flip anyways. 

But either way it seems putting some time restrictions in could really
help things. How often does a 30min show have a 12min commercial?

-- 
Mike Benoit <ipso at snappymail.ca>
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