[mythtv-users] commercial flagging questions

[Michael T. Dean]

On 03/27/2008 05:58 AM, Chris Pinkham wrote:
> * On Thu Mar 27, 2008 at 12:09:41AM -0400, Michael T. Dean wrote:
>   
>> Which, I think all boils down to: CC doesn't work so well (at least, in
>> the US) because anymore, many (most?) commercials now have captions,
>> too.  I'm guessing the implementation in comskip was done at a time when
>> assuming the show had CC and the commercials didn't was a valid
>> assumption, so it uses that simplistic approach.
>>     
> I believe that comskip has a list of phrases that it uses to weight
> commercials versus non-commercials.  So it's something that gets better
> the more you train it with these phrases.  Sort of like what people
> are talking about doing with the video in a commercial, but using
> the much easier method of just looking at the CC data.  If the phrase
> "Milk, it does the body good" pops up, then give that block a few
> points extra because it's probably a commercial, but if "book 'em
> Danno!" is heard then it's probably not.

Cool.  That's pretty impressive (though I think I'd still prefer to see
work on the audio-based detection schemes).

Mike