Paul Hill wrote:
On 18 October 2016 at 19:36, <[email protected]> wrote:
FYI - a number of months ago I called in to local radio morning show - when
these guys were discussing 3D Printing. But, they had No Clue as to what they
were talking about - so that's why I called in with some input. Afterwards - I
contacted the station - and they had NO Problem getting me an MP3 file of
segment where I called in. So - even a TV station may be willing to do the same
- especially if the content of the show is about your Dog!
There's a radio show I like to listen to but it's on a 1am. So I have
a cron job on my server to record the stream.
What I would really like to do is automatically remove the adverts -
it's not on the BBC :-)
I was thinking about a program that detects repeating segments and removes them.
Some ads would sneak in but the second time they aired they would be detected.
Not sure how feasible this is but it's an interesting programming project!
There were boxes that did that back in the VCR days of the 1980's. They
would detect when the video signal dropped below a thresehold and would
put the VCR on hold. Then watch the stream and detect the next "blank
spot" and take the VCR off pause.
The problem was that the blank spots were also happening, randomly, in
the program content, and more than just at the start and end of the
commercials. And broadcasters countered the "new technology" by having
irregular number of commercials....with the blank spots in between.
Needless to say, those boxes didn't sell well since you had to monitor
their operation real time.
Mike
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