[mythtv] Re: Commercial Flagging Idea
Allan Stirling
Dibblahmythml0015 at pendor.org
Fri Jul 8 08:47:51 EDT 2005
Forrest Voight wrote:
> I even found someone who had built a "commercial killer" by detecting
> patterns in line 21 data that usually indicate the start and end of
> commercials. His would mute the volume on the TV when it detected a
> commercial, but yours could do whatever you wish.
>
> --from http://captioning.robson.org/articles/general/nv-line21.html
>
>
> Maybe you could have every method combined (scene change, logo, audio
> type change, line 21 detection (above)...) and if more than 75% of
> them signaled a commercial, then remove it.
>
I'd suggest looking at the code. This (apart from VBI information and
audio) is already near enough to what is done.
Cheers,
Allan.
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