[mythtv] Commercial flagging paper in December IEEE Computer

Blammo blammo.doh at gmail.com
Wed Jan 3 19:30:15 UTC 2007


On 1/3/07, buzz <davidbuzz at gmail.com> wrote:
> As far as the learning part goes:
> It's pretty trivial to know when an "ad skip" was successful... if the ad
> skip occurs and there was no user input/action required, then it was good.
>
> If you get the user doing stuff like skipping backward, pausing, or even
> editing cut points when the system was otherwise idle (just streaming
> recordings to the user) ... then the "ad skip" was bad, and should be given
> a "lower" rating.
>
> Speaking of that.... I don't know how many times I have wished there was a
> binding/button in myth for  "the last ad skip was crap and I just want to
> undo it and watch through it without skipping" - have I missed something,
> and it's already in there?   - or is there an alternate way of getting the
> same thing?

Love the idea. Intiutive would be nice, but even something like a
"training mode" that would pop up and ask "was the last one right?"
and let you give the old tivo Thumbs UP/DOWN....


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