[mythtv-users] Commercial flagging on a sample basis

[Robert]

Nick F wrote:
> 
> On 3/25/08, *Mike Perkins* <mikep at randomtraveller.org.uk 
> <mailto:mikep at randomtraveller.org.uk>> wrote:
> 
>     "Commercial flagging is pretty good, but not perfect". Yeah, in the
>     US. in the
>     UK it's so iffy I gave up and have been manually marking segments by
>     hand ever
>     since. Which I'd rather not have to do. Be nice if some of the
>     methods that work
>     over *there* could be modified so they also work over *here*, not to
>     mention
>     elsewhere. Just sayin'.
> 
>  
> Agreed.  I'm in the UK and after trying ever combination of 
> commercial-skipping and setting finally gave up.  Commercial skipping 
> would be great to have.  Since I lack any coding skills that would be 
> relevant to creating a UK (European?) solution I've never really 
> commented before, but I wonder if this is similar to the multi-rec 
> functionality which was solved by the have-nots contributing to a bounty 
> to try to attract a suitably qualified dev to pick it up?  I'd gladly 
> chip in or help any way I could.
> 

I'm starting to have some luck with ITV2 and ITV4 because they have 
started putting logos on during shows but not during commercial.  But's 
it still not what I'd call "pretty good".

I've noticed that most UK programs are "sponsored by <product>" and 
<product> always has it's advert first and last in commercial break - if 
someone could create a database of these ads and then a comm-flagger 
that used the database to detect them, I think that would be a fairly 
reliable method.

If end-users could mark these ads and submit them for a particular 
channel / program / or everything, and others could download to use in 
detection, that would be pretty cool.

I can imagine how this might work at a high level, but implementing it 
in the Myth code is, sadly,  well beyond my current programming abilities!

Robert.