> -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:mythtv-users- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ramon Redondo > Sent: Tuesday, April 12, 2005 1:06 PM > To: Discussion about mythtv > Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] commercial flagging idea - > commercial"fingerprinting" > > On Apr 12, 2005 11:56 AM, dean collins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > [DC] > > I thought you were just working out the timing of the adds themselves (I > > assume all tv channels break at the same spot in a show) > > > > Not actually trying to identify the show themselves. > > If you read elsewhere in this thread (although not in the many lines > you quoted in your short reply), commercial breaks can easily be > longer or shorter on different affiliates of the same network. > > Here's a relevant quote from Meatwad: > > In a perfect world, all of the commercial breaks would all happen at the > > same time. Everywhere. > > > In reality, they do not. Every master cable headend follows a local > > origination commercial insertion schedule sent daily by their traffic > > and billing department. > > However, if we were able to fingerprint the start and end of each show > segment, then we don't care how long the comemrcial breaks are, or > what the actual commercials were. . We could just look for those > fingerprints and mark everything between the end of the previous > segment and beginning of the next as a commercial. > > _Great_ idea... if it's feasable. > _______________________________________________ > mythtv-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[DC] Ok Ramon, but globally it wouldn't make sense, your idea of fingerprinting the thousand and thousands of advertisements just in the USA alone would add up to be a huge amount. Are you sure that add breaks aren't 'cut' the same on a global basis? it would then make sense in that globally the advertisement 'pre-cursor' and 'post-cursor' would most likely be the same Cheers, Dean
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