[mythtv] proposal: live-tv commercial muting

[Daniel Thor Kristjansson]

On Mon, 21 Mar 2005, Damion de Soto wrote:
]Just wondering if this would be a valid proposition:
]Use the commercial-detection code to run on live tv to mute the
]commericals.
]Does anyone know the minimum system specs required to run the
]commercial-detection code in real-time (or faster-than RT)?

The "all method" commercial-detection code is just about RT on a P4-1.8 
when the frames are 720x480, but blank-frame only could probably be run 
on LiveTV. It's not very accurate, but if the UI were well thought out 
it might work. The main problem is that the user somehow needs to 
indicate whether they are in or out of a commercial since the blank 
frames only indicate transitions, not whether you are currently in a 
commercial or not. And obviously this should be disabled unless the user 
takes some proactive step, since we don't want to mute someone program 
while blaring the commercials ;)

-- Daniel