[mythtv] Commercial Flagging Idea

[David Whyte]

I think this has already been suggested as an idea in the past.  It is
a good idea though as it is a common characteristic of commercials.

Whytey

On 7/5/05, David Miller <david3d at gmail.com> wrote:
>  I had an idea on a new commercial flagging technique which would
> look at the average volume level of the audio between blank frames and
> scene changes to help aid in commercial detection.  Since commercials
> are typically much louder than a show.  I was hoping to experiment
> with this idea but upon looking at the commercial flagging code it
> appears that a number of changes would have to be made to incorporate
> audio into the mix to add audio levels to the data structure etc.
>  So at this point I'd like to hear thoughts from developers who are
> more familiar with the codebase on the viability of using audio for
> this purpose and/or thoughts on what type of changes would need to be
> made to implement such an idea.
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> David
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