> In my opinion a "start" would be to figure out some sort of finger > printing system, or some method of sharing cutlists that will work on > the same program across different stations or that takes in to account > that not every mythtv box will start recording at the exact second. Once > we have that, creating a centralized system to share said cutlists is > the easy part.
Another consideration is going to be the different resolutions people record at. If everyone used the same resolution you could choos e a few place son teh screen (like a real fingerprint sort of) and get a difference from a particular pixel or set of pixels (this should eleminate the contrast and sharpness settings). Then just create a sort of MD5 type algorthm for frames or something so you aren't passing the actual screen shots and thus copyrighted material. The you could look for a series of frames that each match the algorithm's results in the database for the specific cut point. All that said with different resolutions you get even more hairy than what I have described, which is admittedly more complex than it might have to be. How do you compare different resolutions for the same picture? I'm sure it can be done. John -- I have plenty of Gmail invites. Ask me if you'd like one. G Mail rocks for email lists. _______________________________________________ mythtv-users mailing list [email protected] http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
