[mythtv-users] Re: Re: commercial skip/flagging - how well does it workfor you?

[Duncan Sargeant]

Dane Kantner wrote on Sun August 10, at 23:56 -0500:
> > Another idea I've been thinking about is writing commercial flagging
> > based on the channel logo appearing - about 5 seconds after
> > commercials, we always get a subtitle showing the name of the show
> Do you mean the logo that Myth displays?  You couldn't base commercial
> detection off of this--that would be circular.  Though i really don't know
> what you're talking about anyway--I don't get a logo/info after each
> commercial.  If you mean on the station itself, station identifiers vary too
> much I think to search for that...

Hmm, OK.  I did mean the station id/subtitle.  In Australia at least,
it doesn't vary too much, so the logo is always in the same place and
would be easy enough to look for in an image.  I guess it might be
different in other countries.

,dunc