On Apr 12, 2005 12:02 PM, Chris Petersen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > You've obviously never recorded late-night foodtv. I have recorded > several episodes of Good Eats that are 10 minutes of show, 8 minutes of > commercial, 12 minutes of show (or so). Granted, not different > networks, but definitely different than other versions of the same episode.
This is true. I record Good Eats anytime it's on... I have over 100 episodes "mythed" =). I know that sometimes late at night they sometimes have no commercials. Still, that doesn't mean that the same philosophy wouldn't. Lets say the same episode ran with commercials, then a few months later, ran commercial free. The fingerprint would identify pre-commercial footage and post-commercial footage. If the commercial doesn't exist, first off mythcommflag would not mark it as a commercial anyway. Second, it could take the additional "fingerprint" and use some logic code that says "look, if there was a commercial break here based on the fingerprint, then how come it would be 0 seconds long? Ignore". Or something to that effect > > You also have to remember about all of those damn popup ad things that > channels are adding in now, so you'd need to limit your fingerprint to > only certain regions of the screen. I don't think that'd be as big as a concern as you think. I know exactly what you are saying, but also take in to account that audio would/could be used in the fingerprint too. Just as in musicbrainz, if I have a MP3 of a song that was recorded for a studio track... if I upload the finger print, it'll match extrememly well (99% lets say) to the studio track MP3, but it might match 60% to the accoustic version, and 80% to the remix, etc... Either way, as long as you continue to think of it as a way to strengthen the existing mythcommflag job, and not as a replacement or the main factor then you should be fine.... at least in theory =D > You'd also have to take > brightness/contrast/etc into account, since users will have those set > differently for recording. True, but still don't think it'll make a HUGE difference. Few percentage points here or there. The more people that upload their fingerprints, the smarter the overall fingerprint for the show gets. > Cool idea, though. Thanks... now only if I could code =D _______________________________________________ mythtv-users mailing list [email protected] http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
