[mythtv-users] Commflag - Logo detection position

[Brad DerManouelian]

On Jan 5, 2009, at 9:47 AM, Brian Wood wrote:

> On Monday 05 January 2009 10:10:36 Brad DerManouelian wrote:
>> On Jan 5, 2009, at 8:56 AM, Alexandre Gagné wrote:
>>> Hi !
>>>
>>> For commercial flagging, I had some success with "all
>>> method" (including logo detection), but my problem is that sometime,
>>> there is a commercial with the channel logo, but in a different  
>>> corner
>>> (like to advertise that it's from that network, the logo appears on
>>> the
>>> imagine somewhere).
>>>
>>> My question is, is there a way to make the "logo detection" checks
>>> only in a specific corner ?  In my case, I need the detection to  
>>> look
>>> only in the lower right corner of the image, any other place would  
>>> be
>>> "false positive".  The only time I have commercial "unflagged" is  
>>> when
>>> the logo appears on the left side.
>>
>> No, there is no such option.
>
> Just a note:
>
> The network would never put a logo on commercial material (the  
> advertiser is
> paying for the entire screen, and won't share it). Notice that even  
> CNN drops
> their "crawl" during commercials.
>
> The material you are talking about is "promotional", or otherwise  
> belongs to
> the network. It is not "advertising" as far as the FCC is concerned,  
> and is
> logged as "PR" (promo) and not "CA" (commercial announcement).
>
> So the commflagger is actually doing its job correctly, in  
> identifying CA
> material. The problem is that you do not want to watch PR stuff  
> either, but
> that's another issue.

I believe this is happening outside of the USA and the network might  
actually be overlaying their bug on commercials.