[mythtv-users] Feature request: Detect existence of closed captioning

Chris Pinkham cpinkham at bc2va.org
Mon Jul 19 04:04:12 UTC 2010


* On Sun Jul 18, 2010 at 09:34:22PM -0400, f-myth-users at media.mit.edu wrote:
>     > Date: Mon, 19 Jul 2010 11:26:35 +1000 (EST)
>     > From: "Anthony Giggins" <seven at seven.dorksville.net>
> 
>     > Wasn't Closed Captions detection also suggested as a Commflagging
>     > detection mechanism?
> 
> If you're asking, "Can you use CC to indicate whether you're in a
> commercial or not?", I'd sadly have to say, "no."  I've seen some
> ads w/CC, and plenty of programs w/o CC.  (This is North American

I'll have to disagree here.  I believe the windows program called comskip
that was originally based off of mythcommflag source can do detection based
on CC.  I think it does it by using a dictionary of words to rate the
block.  When I considered adding CC detection to mythcommflag, this is
how I was also planning on doing it.

--
Chris


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