[mythtv] job posting: mythcommflag sans database activity

[Cyrus Adkisson]

Hi everybody. My company, VideoGenesis, is looking for a MythTV expert 
to do a small job for us. We need mythcommflag to be stripped of its 
ties to the mythtv backend and database so that it can function as a 
simple command line program. I've personally spent some time digging in 
the code to do this with some minor success, but it's readily obvious 
I'm going to need someone more familiar with myth to do the job correctly.

Here are the commands we'd like to see:

mythcommflag --nodatabase -X --file file.avi

...where X is one of the following flags (and could include other flags 
that are useful in *story detection* of local news):

c: flag commercials normally
s: identify scene changes
b: identify blank frames
l: identify logo on/off areas
...

All output would just be printed to standard out for analysis by other 
programs. This job doesn't require any deep knowledge of how the various 
mythcommflag algorithms work, and there will be no altering of that 
code. All that has to be done is decoupling the code that's already 
there from the db so that mythcommflag can operate on a file on a 
computer that doesn't even have mysql-server or myth installed.

The results of this project would be open source and hopefully committed 
to the mythtv trunk at some point. The "--nodatabase" flag would allow 
mythcommflag to retain all its normal functionality, but be able to run 
in a "decoupled from database" mode.

Please send a quote and timeframe to complete the job to me at this 
address. Thanks.

Cyrus