<div>I could definitely see a correct commercial skip timecode of an episode being applied to the following episodes. There are a few shows I watch everyday that commericial detection never catches the last commercial break. I haven't figured out what they do differently during that break, but it just never seems to catch it. If I could some how tell it where the break is at only one time, and then it would do it from then on, that would be great.</div>
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<div>But it sounds more complex than continuing to work on the accuracy of the existing commerical skip program. </div>
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<div>Maybe giving the ability to override the default commercial skip option for a particular program could help with this, assuming one of the commercial skip options would work better than your default.</div>
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<div>Greg Mischel Smith</div>
<div>KCMO<br><br></div>
<div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Mar 25, 2008 at 9:05 AM, Brad DerManouelian <<a href="mailto:myth@dermanouelian.com">myth@dermanouelian.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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<div class="Ih2E3d">On Mar 25, 2008, at 6:10 AM, sylvain brejeon wrote:<br><br>> Hi all,<br>><br>> Am I wondering if a commercial skipping method on a sample basis has<br>> ever been attempted or discussed about here?<br>
<br></div>Yup. Check the archives. They've mostly been talked about in terms of<br>sharing cutpoints in a peer-to-peer style network which ultimately was<br>decided a very bad idea.<br><br><a href="http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/users/124644" target="_blank">http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/users/124644</a><br>
<a href="http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/users/85505" target="_blank">http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/users/85505</a><br>
<div class="Ih2E3d"><br>><br>> A learning process in a way where some properties of commercials<br>> would be recorded and then used for flagging.<br>> It wouldn't need a huge amount (to be updated overtime though) of<br>
> samples I think, as it is always the same bloody ads that come up<br>> over and over again.<br>> Maybe even a database could be shared over the net.<br>> Please let me know if it already exists or what you think about it.<br>
><br>> Also I was thinking about the (US) series, aren't they formatted so<br>> the commercial breaks last 3 minutes every 5 mins of actual programs<br>> for instance?<br>> I'm not sure that it would be a viable method but it would permit to<br>
> release the CPU at regular intervals...<br>> well, was just a thought and maybe it's already the case with<br>> current flagging methods.<br><br></div>That's a more interesting idea to me. If you consistently watch a show<br>
every day that has commercial breaks within the same couple of seconds<br>in the same spots every night (I'm thinking Daily Show, Colbert Report<br>for myself) then you could just re-use the commercial skip data from<br>
another program and apply it to the one that's just recorded.<br><br>I think the reason nothing like this has ever been implemented is<br>because commercial detection is VERY fast. Faster than real-time<br>video. As I'm watching a program, I already have commercial skip marks<br>
so it doesn't provide me very much functionality to not have to run<br>the commskip process. Because of this, I would guess it makes more<br>sense to put effort into making the commercial skip more accurate<br>rather than effort into re-using less accurate existing commercial<br>
skipping. :)<br><br>-Brad<br><br>_______________________________________________<br>mythtv-users mailing list<br><a href="mailto:mythtv-users@mythtv.org">mythtv-users@mythtv.org</a><br><a href="http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users" target="_blank">http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users</a><br>
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