[mythtv-users] Commercial flagging on a sample basis

[Michael T. Dean]

> Someone, somewhere will sometime write:
>> To be written by someone someday:
>>> At a subsequent time, a user will write:
>>>> Some day, some person will write:
>>>>> On some day after today, another person will write:
>>>>>> On the morrow, someone else will write:
>>>>>>> On 03/25/2008 12:42 PM, Nick F wrote:
>>>>>>>> On 3/25/08, Mike Perkins <mikep at randomtraveller.org.uk> wrote:
>>>>>>>>                 
>>>>>>>>> "Commercial flagging is pretty good, but not perfect". Yeah, in the US. in
>>>>>>>>> the
>>>>>>>>> UK it's so iffy I gave up and have been manually marking segments by hand
>>>>>>>>> ever
>>>>>>>>> since. Which I'd rather not have to do. Be nice if some of the methods
>>>>>>>>> that work
>>>>>>>>> over *there* could be modified so they also work over *here*, not to
>>>>>>>>> mention
>>>>>>>>> elsewhere. Just sayin'.
>>>>>>>> Agreed.  I'm in the UK and after trying ever combination of
>>>>>>>> commercial-skipping and setting finally gave up.  Commercial skipping would
>>>>>>>> be great to have.  Since I lack any coding skills that would be relevant to
>>>>>>>> creating a UK (European?) solution I've never really commented before, but I
>>>>>>>> wonder if this is similar to the multi-rec functionality which was solved by
>>>>>>>> the have-nots contributing to a bounty to try to attract a suitably
>>>>>>>> qualified dev to pick it up?  I'd gladly chip in or help any way I could.
>>>>>> Why not have it detect when the audio goes silent?
>>>>>
>>>>> Or, we could have it detect those annoying logos on the screen
>>>>> during the show.  This might be hard if they use those really
>>>>> annoying animated logos.
>>>>
>>>> Or, we could detect when the audio stream changes type, like going
>>>> from AC-3 during the show to MP2 during the commercials.
>>>>
>>>> BTW, how hard would it be to automatically erase those logos on the
>>>> screen during the show.
>>>
>>> Or, we could detect when the resolution or frame rate changes.
>>
>> Or, we could set up a P2P distributed commflagging approach to help
>> out people with low-powered backends.
>
> And it could be intelligent and learn from what other users actually
> watch and what they skip.


There.  I think I finished the thread up for you.  Let me know if I
forgot anything.  ;)

Mike