On Tue, Dec 13, 2005 at 05:41:06PM +0000, Kim Wall wrote: > This seems to be extremely regional. I believe the current algorithms > produce good results in the US, but here in the UK they're almost > useless for most channels (I only consistently get usable results on > Channel5 afternoon movies).
It's not so much regional as channel-specific. I'm in Canada and find that commercial skipping works perfectly for about 50% of the shows, imperfectly for about 40% of the shows, and is completely useless for the remaining 10%. Many of the stations are taking active steps to frustrate commercial skippers by omitting the usual blank frames between commercials and by delaying the return of the station watermark for a full 30 seconds after the commercials are over. Some are also starting to run non-standard commercial lengths so that the flaggers that look for scene cuts at 30 second intervals don't work. It's an arms race.... The only good news is that they haven't found a way to embed pop-ups in the video stream. :-P -- Joke template: Three guys walk into a bar. One of them is a wee bit stupid, and the whole scene unfolds with a tedious inevitability.
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