On Mon, 2005-01-17 at 22:47, Jules Gosnell wrote: > re commercial detection > > everything that I can google about how mythtv/mythcommflag does it seems > to indicate that we are well into the realms of image processing and AI !
AI is dead, image processing rules forever. > is it just urban folklore, or is there not some sort of specific > 'signal' that marks the beginning/end of commercial breaks. Is there not > a similar mechanism for marking programmes, so that instead of working > by timeslot and hoping that the schedule is tight, a recorder can just > wait for the signal to start/stop the recording... In Australia, all commercial breaks begin and end with a blank (black) frame. > of course, if it were that easy, I'm sure mythtv would already do it, > so... - perhaps it exists, but only on some channels ? The current system apparently works OK for analog recordings. My dvb-t stream comes with a dotted line at the top which probably interferes with detecting. > can anyone enlighten me ? > > thanks, > > > Jules (UK/DVB-T user)
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