[mythtv] New Method for Commercial Detection.

[Ed W]

I had another interesting idea that you might want to also look at, but 
certainly in the UK (terrestrial) nearly all our programs use a standard 
trailer/jingle sequence at the start and end of each advert sequence and 
program (often with an audio jingle, but the video jingle is more 
consistent).

The sequences are ever changing, but what's consistent is that you get 
one near the start and end of the program and several in the middle 
(which in the UK are nearly always spot on 4 mins apart).  So a simple 
hash algorithm on each frame might spot the repeated frames and a 
cluster of repeated frames identifies our jingle.  Some simple 
heuristics to eliminate matching repeated scenes in the tv stream (eg 
blank frames) might give a useful way to spot the breaks...

Interesting idea anyway...

Good luck with the audio fingerprinting

Ed W