[mythtv-users] commercial flagging idea - commercial"fingerprinting"

[Risto Treksler]

Josh Burks <dotnofoolin at gmail.com> said:

> On Apr 12, 2005 12:31 PM, Risto Treksler <risto at elkhornbanff.ca> wrote:
> <snip> 
> > luckily, we already know exactly what preceeds and follows every commercial
> > - a blank frame
> 
> Except when the network gets creative and "blends" the end of a
> commerical with the beginning of the show. Happens frequently with the
> 15sec station identification blurbs that usually occur at the end of a
> commerical block. Finding the blank frame get hard or impossible at
> that point.
>

but there is a blank frame before the station id block, right?

personally,
i don't mind watching up to a minute of commercials or station id blurbs
as long as most ads are skipped and there aren't any false positives.