[mythtv] Thoughts on new commercial detection option

[Simon Lundell]

> > Hi!
> > 
> > Would it be possible to dump this data to a file? I would really
like 
> > to test how an ANN performs on this kind of data.

> I'm extremely interested in this as well.  Over the last few months
I've had many ideas for using ANN to flag
> commercials.  I've done a lot of ANN programming so I would be more
than willing to contribute code if anyone is
> interested in following up on this idea.

Do you have any ideas on which ANN architecture to use? I guess that a
ordinary feed-forward packprop with a sliding window will miss the
long-distance relationships (such as how long a commercial break usually
is), but may be accurate enough. I imagine that one use a seperate ANN
for each channel, and a way to share ANNs with each other. Another
challange is to integrate the ANN into the GUI, the ANN needs user
feedback to be able to learn. 

//Simon