[mythtv-users] Re: Torrentocracy Patch against Mythtv-cvs

[Simon Kenyon]

On Thursday 03 March 2005 07:14, Maverick wrote:
> > how about sharing the locations of the commercials?
> >
> > would need a way of accurately setting time - or a hash of the frames
> > a bit like cddb - somebody does an accurate commerical cut and then sends
> > it to a central repository
> >
> > now that would be cool
>
> You must be on the same wave length of me and my friends. We where
> recently talking about this functionality, so only the first person
> mark commercials (manual, ie, not auto flagged) and submit their
> locations to the network. Then everyone else has perfectly commercial
> free viewing. For any time that show ever airs, it's likely to be the
> same too.
>
> THE MAN would definitely dislike this idea, and IANAL, but I certainly
> can't seeing it being illegal. There's no obligation to watching
> commercials or using any sort of technology to skip them, as far as I
> know.

that sort of makes it worth doing - doesn't it :-)
>
> Issac already expressed he doesn't want any technology that's central
> server centric (ala Napster was), at least that's the way I understood
> his post about that. Maybe I misunderstood.
>
> -Kenneth

we use freedb, imdb and amazon already - so the point is moot
all you would need is:

channel, date and time (though additional info like program title might help)
what would be returned would be a set of cut point
you would probably need to be able to slide them around as a group to cater 
for time differences
--
simon