[mythtv] Developing a Commercial Detector

[Anthony Giggins]

On 9 May 2016 at 21:12, Glen <gga96 at skymesh.com.au> wrote:

> Hello All this is my first email to the Dev group.
>
> I installed MythTV in 2013 and it has worked well since then. I started to
> think about commercial detection and set about defining a method that would
> work in my local area, east coast Australia. All work took place on my
> Windows development  machine and by late 2015 the technique was thought to
> be worth taking to Linux and Qt. I have finished the translation to Qt on
> MythBuntu.
>
> Like the published Silence technique this process also requires tweaking
> to best deal with local Free To Air TV.
>
> A small data set held in CSV text files stores persistent data about the
> channel icons and the associated RGB signature and techniques to be
> applied. A GUI manages the acquisition and maintenance of icon data, whilst
> a Data Module deals with the Myth interface, CSV files and code to achieve
> a flagged outcome.
>
> I expected to use libmythtv and libmythbase and possibly other libraries.
> To create a clean dev environment I installed Mythbuntu 0.28 on a spare
> box, Ansibled, git clones the source, configured, made and compiled, all
> without a hitch. The objective here was to have the build tree complete
> with source, headers, object code and shared compiled libraries.
>
> I then ran into a problem.
> I have no grounding with Linux, and could not get the .pro file configured
> to include the necessary libraries. The latest .pro file is attached with
> the last of many attempts to get this to work. All errors say something
> like “cannot find –libmythbase” and “cannot find –libmythtv”.
>
> The two classes I want to use are mythdb and mythplayer for MSqlQuery,
> MythPlayer and VideoFrame.
>
> What have I missed?
>
> All help will be appreciated.
>
> Regards
> Glen Adamsom
>
> Hi Glen,

When your ready for testers let me know.

Cheers,

Anthony
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