[mythtv-users] Commercial Detection

[John Moore (CompuCom Systems Inc)]

Its too bad MythTV front end couldn't allow the user to flag the start and end of commercials, so that the back end could run transcode afterwards and remove them.

John Moore
OSG VM Solutions Team

-----Original Message-----
From: mythtv-users [mailto:mythtv-users-bounces at mythtv.org] On Behalf Of Gary Buhrmaster
Sent: Friday, April 17, 2015 8:46 AM
To: Discussion about MythTV
Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] Commercial Detection

On Fri, Apr 17, 2015 at 3:14 PM, Tom Dexter <digitalaudiorock at gmail.com> wrote:
....
> I use Myth purely with OTA (New York area networks) and have been 
> using commercial detection for a long time.  Years ago it was almost 
> flawless, but I think the broadcasters have made changes over the 
> years that have started tripping it up a bit.

Just as the (serious) spammers own all the best spam detection technology/appliances in order to detection and prevention, there is an entire ecosystem which tries to tweak the presentation to minimize the ability for automated systems to detect commercials (and skip them, which reduces revenue that pays for the content).
It is the old story of the better defenses lead to better offenses.
The battles continue.  I would not be at all surprised if the end-game is not the end of OTA as we know it.
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