[mythtv-users] Commercial Detection

[Hika van den Hoven]

Hoi Gary,

Friday, April 17, 2015, 5:45:58 PM, you wrote:

> On Fri, Apr 17, 2015 at 3:14 PM, Tom Dexter
> <digitalaudiorock at gmail.com> wrote:
> ....
>> I use Myth purely with OTA (New York area networks) and have been
>> using commercial detection for a long time.  Years ago it was almost
>> flawless, but I think the broadcasters have made changes over the
>> years that have started tripping it up a bit.

> Just as the (serious) spammers own all the best spam detection
> technology/appliances in order to detection and prevention, there
> is an entire ecosystem which tries to tweak the presentation to
> minimize the ability for automated systems to detect commercials
> (and skip them, which reduces revenue that pays for the content).
> It is the old story of the better defenses lead to better offenses.
> The battles continue.  I would not be at all surprised if the end-game
> is not the end of OTA as we know it.
> _______________________________________________

In general most breaks are detected, but quit general 2 min to short.
There are however periodes in time it's crap.
I have it set to notify a few seconds up front and go back a little
bit after jumping. And then jump forward to 1 min and back to 10 sec.
So easy to fast jump past.


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