[mythtv-users] Peer-to-peer commercial skipping

Chris Pinkham cpinkham at bc2va.org
Wed Sep 22 01:12:23 EDT 2004


> The peer-to-peer threads got me thinking about other peer-to-peer
> opportunities other than sharing recordings.  
> 
> How about sharing commercial cut list information?  Now, I imagine there
> are varying commercial length breaks, depending on where you are, but
> what probably is consistent is the length of each show segment.  Maybe
> this information can be shared for more accurate commercial detection.

This wouldn't do much good since it would require everyone's recordings
to start at the same exact second down to the exact frame and shows
that were rebroadcast or tape-delayed could have different length
commercials in them at different times and really screw things up.

-- 

Chris



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