[mythtv-users] MythRecommend module, gathering stage... [was: Collaborative recommended viewing revisited...]

[Mike Benoit]

Take a look at the email I sent to the dev list:

Subject: Massively distributed commercial flagging?
Date: Thu, 28 Oct 2004 01:26:01 -0700

The basic idea if you will never know the exact frames, but if the
"hints" contained high/avg/low water marks as a _percentage_ (so its
relative) from the beginning of the recording, they should be pretty
close. 

Then the commercial flagger can just skip to the vicinity and start
processing from there. If all worked out, it would only have to process
a couple minutes of the recoding in total.

On Thu, 2004-10-28 at 14:20 -0800, John Andersen wrote:
> On Thursday 28 October 2004 09:51, Mike Benoit wrote:
> > The theory being that most machines wouldn't have to spend 30-60minutes
> > flagging commercials, they could instead just query a central database
> > and download "best guess" flags, and "confirm" them with the local copy
> > of the recording.
> 
> Very interesting.  
> What would you use as the starting common point from
> which all flags are measured?  The first blank frame?  Start times are
> not all that precise across the country, let alone the world, and someone
> who has myth set to start 5 seconds early would be off from someone
> starting 10 seconds early.
> 
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Mike Benoit <ipso at snappymail.ca>
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