[mythtv-users] Commercial detection idea

[Jarod Wilson]

On Thursday 07 April 2005 18:04, Justin Hunt wrote:
> I had a idea i thought might be worth a try.  Currently as i
> understand it the commercial detection code only looks at the image's
> captured, however an easy way to detect a commercial break would be to
> "listen" to the sound.  When there is no sound (or under a certain
> level) and it coincides iwth a possible break then you have an even
> better chance that its a commercial, becuase ive never seen audio
> carry from the show into commercials.
>
> Would this be possible, i did a bit of work on winamp visualizations
> and i think it shouldnt be too difficult.  Anyone care to comment?

Sounds like a worthwhile idea to me. You might want to take this to the -dev 
list to get feedback from those who know the internals though, some of the 
devs don't track -users that closely.

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