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

Shaul Kedem shaul.kedem at gmail.com
Thu Mar 3 16:18:19 UTC 2005


"Actually, where it would come in handy is not just commercials (which
software today can detect) but other things like pitching changes, boring
academy awards acceptance speeches, long driving scenes to no purpose etc."

This gives me an idea.. how about having more than one sort of "flag"?

- Over 18 flag
- Boring car chases flag
- Commercial flag
- ...

This way if you want to see something all you need to do is say what
sections to remove according to the flags and away you go....




On Wed, 2 Mar 2005 23:53:39 -0800, Brad Templeton
<brad+myth at templetons.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 03, 2005 at 02:14:58AM -0500, Maverick wrote:
> > 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.
> 
> You will find this suggestion from me in a number of threads in the
> past (I think I first suggested it to the Replay guys 5 years ago but
> they never did anything with it.)  It will happen.
> >
> > 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.
> 
> Actually, where it would come in handy is not just commercials (which
> software today can detect) but other things like pitching changes, boring
> academy awards acceptance speeches, long driving scenes to no purpose etc.
> >
> > 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.
> 
> Actually what he said recently that sounded like this was that what he meant
> was he wants to insist that a recommendation system be centralized on his
> personal server.
> 
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