[mythtv-users] Commercial Detection

[Brian J. Murrell]

On Fri, 2015-04-17 at 15:45 +0000, Gary Buhrmaster wrote:
> there
> is an entire ecosystem which tries to tweak the presentation to
> minimize the ability for automated systems to detect commercials

Can you site any sources on this or is this just your opinion?

Because my gut feel on that is that it's a lost war at that point in any
case.  Any system that is going to try to skip commercials by detection
will at minimum allow users to skip them with a "jump forward" (i.e. an
amount of time) function and so no matter how well you can beat the
detection systems, you will never beat the human with a button.

So any effort put towards defeating detection is a total waste because
even if you could defeat them all with 100% effectiveness, the users
with those systems will have the buttons and are not going to watch them
any way.

b.

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