[mythtv-users] Commercial flagging on a sample basis

[Mike Perkins]

Robert wrote:
> 
> I've noticed that most UK programs are "sponsored by <product>" and 
> <product> always has it's advert first and last in commercial break - if 
> someone could create a database of these ads and then a comm-flagger 
> that used the database to detect them, I think that would be a fairly 
> reliable method.
> 
> If end-users could mark these ads and submit them for a particular 
> channel / program / or everything, and others could download to use in 
> detection, that would be pretty cool.
> 
Take some care here. I would guess that you might end up stepping on 
copyright-owners toes if you are talking about what I think you might be talking 
about.

Now, copyright in the UK is possibly treated not quite as crazily as over the 
other side, but I think there may still be sufficient question of legality in 
what you might be suggesting that talk of it around here could cause problems.

Samples for investigating techniques, yes. Possibly collating some kind of 
digest of each commercial, maybe. "Downloading", now that raises all kinds of 
flags we ought not be talking about on this list, however innocently.

Mike Perkins