On Thursday 03 March 2005 07:14, Maverick wrote: > > how about sharing the locations of the commercials? > > > > would need a way of accurately setting time - or a hash of the frames > > a bit like cddb - somebody does an accurate commerical cut and then sends > > it to a central repository > > > > now that would be cool > > You must be on the same wave length of me and my friends. We where > recently talking about this functionality, so only the first person > mark commercials (manual, ie, not auto flagged) and submit their > locations to the network. Then everyone else has perfectly commercial > free viewing. For any time that show ever airs, it's likely to be the > same too. > > THE MAN would definitely dislike this idea, and IANAL, but I certainly > can't seeing it being illegal. There's no obligation to watching > commercials or using any sort of technology to skip them, as far as I > know.
that sort of makes it worth doing - doesn't it :-) > > Issac already expressed he doesn't want any technology that's central > server centric (ala Napster was), at least that's the way I understood > his post about that. Maybe I misunderstood. > > -Kenneth we use freedb, imdb and amazon already - so the point is moot all you would need is: channel, date and time (though additional info like program title might help) what would be returned would be a set of cut point you would probably need to be able to slide them around as a group to cater for time differences -- simon _______________________________________________ mythtv-users mailing list [email protected] http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
