[mythtv-users] commercial flagging questions

[Dan Ritter]

On Thu, Mar 27, 2008 at 11:05:54AM -0700, Yeechang Lee wrote:
> bungle <nabble.e.wuuza at xoxy.net> says:
> > According to my latest results, [comskip] seems less than twice as
> > fast, so skipping every other frame (which probably wouldn't miss
> > much) could easily account for a lot of that.
> 
> The skip-every-other-frame idea does sound interesting; in this
> non-coder's mind it sounds like an easy way to significantly improve
> performance on a task that doesn't seem to require that every single
> frame be examined. Heck, even one frame per second or half second
> sounds usable. Or am I missing something obvious? It's not like
> mythcommflag's performance is really lacking anything as things stand,
> at least on my setup.

Indeed, is it reasonable to examine every Nth frame, and if it
looks like a transition has occurred, move back N frames and
examine every one for the break?

-dsr-

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