[mythtv-users] Skipping adverts in UK using DVB-T - supported ?

[Jules Gosnell]

Christopher McEwan wrote:

>On Mon, 17 Jan 2005 21:43:53 +1100, Phill Edwards
><philledwards at gmail.com> wrote:
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>>>>I've failed to get ad-detection to work with DVB-T in the UK. I don't
>>>>know why, I wouldn't have thought the mechanism that creates the nuv
>>>>file would really matter that much ? ..ho-hum
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>>>It's nothing to do with DVB-T though, the ad detection just isn't
>>>clever enough at the moment to find most adverts on UK TV it seems.
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>>>It does find some, but not all. It also finds things which aren't
>>>ads at all so you have to be careful.
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>>The ad detection doesn't really work in Australlia on Free To air
>>analogue TV either, but I thought I saw something about there being an
>>improvement in CVS a few weeks ago.
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>>Regards,
>>Phill
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>I would hazard a guess that my setup correctly detects ads about 10%
>of the time. Im using DVB-T in the UK also with 0.16.
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>Hopefully there will be some improvements in the commercial detection
>code, until then its not a big deal to just FF ;)
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re commercial detection

everything that I can google about how mythtv/mythcommflag does it seems 
to indicate that we are well into the realms of image processing and AI !

is it just urban folklore, or is there not some sort of specific 
'signal' that marks the beginning/end of commercial breaks. Is there not 
a similar mechanism for marking programmes, so that instead of working 
by timeslot and hoping that the schedule is tight, a recorder can just 
wait for the signal to start/stop the recording...

of course, if it were that easy, I'm sure mythtv would already do it, 
so... - perhaps it exists, but only on some channels ?

can anyone enlighten me ?

thanks,


Jules (UK/DVB-T user)


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