[mythtv-users] possible p2p approach for mythtv information?

[Kim Wall]

Kevin Kuphal wrote:

> I have a hard time even seeing the value of sharing this data.  Cutlists 
> are quite dependent on pre/post-roll, local commerical segments and many 
> other factors making it a losing battle to even collect valid 
> information and then, for what?  My commercial detection generates a 
> near perfect cut/skip-list for me within an hour of the completion of 
> the recording and I rarely have anything in my watch list for more than 
> days before it is watched and deleted.
> 
> Just seems much ado about nothing to me...

You obviously don't live in the UK, or anywhere else where the 
commercial flagger is 95% useless and the programming isn't very 
localised (our commercials are regional, but the programmes and timings 
of the breaks usually aren't).

Pre and post roll can presumably be accounted for and subtracted from 
the timings before sharing the data (assuming that everyone's clocks are 
synced - not an unreasonable assumption, as a PVR with a wildly 
inaccurate clock isn't much use).  Myth knows when the recording 
started, and it knows when the programme was supposed to start.

Okay, maybe a better commflagger would be an alternative, but this 
strikes me as an equally valid solution...


Kim.