[mythtv-users] Commercial flagging on a sample basis

[Mike Perkins]

Michael T. Dean wrote:
>> Someone, somewhere will sometime write:
>>> To be written by someone someday:
>>>> At a subsequent time, a user will write:
>>>>> Some day, some person will write:
>>>>>> On some day after today, another person will write:
>>>>>>> On the morrow, someone else will write:
>>>>>>>> On 03/25/2008 12:42 PM, Nick F wrote:
>>>>>>>>> On 3/25/08, Mike Perkins <mikep at randomtraveller.org.uk> wrote:
>>>>>>>>>                 
>>>>>>>>>> "Commercial flagging is pretty good, but not perfect". Yeah, in the US. in
>>>>>>>>>> the
>>>>>>>>>> UK it's so iffy I gave up and have been manually marking segments by hand
>>>>>>>>>> ever
>>>>>>>>>> since. Which I'd rather not have to do. Be nice if some of the methods
>>>>>>>>>> that work
>>>>>>>>>> over *there* could be modified so they also work over *here*, not to
>>>>>>>>>> mention
>>>>>>>>>> elsewhere. Just sayin'.
>>>>>>>>> Agreed.  I'm in the UK and after trying ever combination of
>>>>>>>>> commercial-skipping and setting finally gave up.  Commercial skipping would
>>>>>>>>> be great to have.  Since I lack any coding skills that would be relevant to
>>>>>>>>> creating a UK (European?) solution I've never really commented before, but I
>>>>>>>>> wonder if this is similar to the multi-rec functionality which was solved by
>>>>>>>>> the have-nots contributing to a bounty to try to attract a suitably
>>>>>>>>> qualified dev to pick it up?  I'd gladly chip in or help any way I could.
>>>>>>> Why not have it detect when the audio goes silent?
>>>>>> Or, we could have it detect those annoying logos on the screen
>>>>>> during the show.  This might be hard if they use those really
>>>>>> annoying animated logos.
>>>>> Or, we could detect when the audio stream changes type, like going
>>>>> from AC-3 during the show to MP2 during the commercials.
>>>>>
>>>>> BTW, how hard would it be to automatically erase those logos on the
>>>>> screen during the show.
>>>> Or, we could detect when the resolution or frame rate changes.
>>> Or, we could set up a P2P distributed commflagging approach to help
>>> out people with low-powered backends.
>> And it could be intelligent and learn from what other users actually
>> watch and what they skip.
> 
> 
> There.  I think I finished the thread up for you.  Let me know if I
> forgot anything.  ;)
> 
Yes. *None of the above works satisfactorily in the UK*.

Mike Perkins