[mythtv] Re:Another commercial flagging method

[Liam]

I've submitted a patch (called scenealt4.patch) which does pretty much this. It will need a fair amount of testing to get the thresholds right; obviously it's one thing to get it working for one person on a dozen shows...

Liam


> I too suspect that commercial detection could be made much more
> accurate if the length and 
> (agreeing with Dooferlad) the timing of each commercial were 
> considered. 
> 
> Some food for thought: 
> 
> 1. Flag all potential commercials using existing and proposed 
> methods (blank frame, scene 
> change, audio characteristics, etc.). 
> 
> 2. Use heuristics to rate each potential commercial's likelihood of ...