[mythtv-users] commercial flagging idea -
commercial"fingerprinting"
Preston Crow
pc-mythtv05 at crowcastle.net
Tue Apr 12 18:04:31 UTC 2005
On Tue, 2005-04-12 at 13:31, Risto Treksler wrote:
> the obvious problems with fingerprinting is that
> - it can't work for newly aired shows and
True.
> - it relies on someone not poisoning the database
> (much like p2p networks have been poisoned with fakes)
False. There are several work-arounds for this, including digital
signatures of published fingerprints (using a reputation system) and
sanity-checking based on existing algorithms. A reputation system would
be desirable anyway, as some people would do a better job of getting
seamless cuts.
> - it couldn't hope to cover nearly enough shows to be useful
> (or am i being naive)
False. You're being naive. If it just gets popular prime time network
shows, that's enough to cover probably 70% or more of the shows people
really care about.
--PC
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