[mythtv-users] Commflag - Logo detection position
Brian Wood
beww at beww.org
Mon Jan 5 18:31:10 UTC 2009
On Monday 05 January 2009 10:50:11 Brad DerManouelian wrote:
> On Jan 5, 2009, at 9:47 AM, Brian Wood wrote:
> > On Monday 05 January 2009 10:10:36 Brad DerManouelian wrote:
> >> On Jan 5, 2009, at 8:56 AM, Alexandre Gagné wrote:
> >>> Hi !
> >>>
> >>> For commercial flagging, I had some success with "all
> >>> method" (including logo detection), but my problem is that sometime,
> >>> there is a commercial with the channel logo, but in a different
> >>> corner
> >>> (like to advertise that it's from that network, the logo appears on
> >>> the
> >>> imagine somewhere).
> >>>
> >>> My question is, is there a way to make the "logo detection" checks
> >>> only in a specific corner ? In my case, I need the detection to
> >>> look
> >>> only in the lower right corner of the image, any other place would
> >>> be
> >>> "false positive". The only time I have commercial "unflagged" is
> >>> when
> >>> the logo appears on the left side.
> >>
> >> No, there is no such option.
> >
> > Just a note:
> >
> > The network would never put a logo on commercial material (the
> > advertiser is
> > paying for the entire screen, and won't share it). Notice that even
> > CNN drops
> > their "crawl" during commercials.
> >
> > The material you are talking about is "promotional", or otherwise
> > belongs to
> > the network. It is not "advertising" as far as the FCC is concerned,
> > and is
> > logged as "PR" (promo) and not "CA" (commercial announcement).
> >
> > So the commflagger is actually doing its job correctly, in
> > identifying CA
> > material. The problem is that you do not want to watch PR stuff
> > either, but
> > that's another issue.
>
> I believe this is happening outside of the USA and the network might
> actually be overlaying their bug on commercials.
Could be, I'm only familiar with the US situation. I have seen situations
where the "bug" was accidentally left up, and the advertiser refused to pay
for that time slot, and didn't.
The actual contracts for TV advertising are interesting. As of 6 or 7 years
ago the networks and stations did not even guarantee color, that might even
still be the situation.
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