[mythtv-users] Myth Ideas, capturing the CC and querying for it

[Douglas Phillipson]

Adding to my own post...  How about a trigger that sends email or pops 
up a messages when something of interest occurs in the CC.  You enter 
the text of interest and when it gets a hit, the mythfrontend pops up 
and plays it.

DSP

Douglas Phillipson wrote:
> Would it be hard to capture the Closed Captioning text in the database 
> for each show, timed with a "timing marker"?  Then you could query for 
> shows of interest.  If news is your thing, you could set your machine to 
> capture all the news shows then you could query the captioned text for 
> things of interest which would return a list of shows that are 
> interesting to you.  Then if you play the show it could take you 
> straight to the part of interest rather than playing the whole show and 
> having to find the interesting part.  This would be great for finding 
> things in newscasts, like show me all the Space Shuttle stories or any 
> story that mentions "Clinton with Lewinski".
> 
> Just a thought
> 
> DSP
> 
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