[mythtv-users] commercial flagging idea -
commercial"fingerprinting"
Risto Treksler
risto at elkhornbanff.ca
Tue Apr 12 17:31:17 UTC 2005
Ramon Redondo <malinon at gmail.com> said:
> However, if we were able to fingerprint the start and end of each show
> segment, then we don't care how long the comemrcial breaks are, or
> what the actual commercials were. . We could just look for those
> fingerprints and mark everything between the end of the previous
> segment and beginning of the next as a commercial.
*tongue firmly in cheek*
luckily, we already know exactly what preceeds and follows every commercial
- a blank frame
the obvious problems with fingerprinting is that
- it can't work for newly aired shows and
- it relies on someone not poisoning the database
(much like p2p networks have been poisoned with fakes)
- it couldn't hope to cover nearly enough shows to be useful
(or am i being naive)
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