[plug] [OT] Ad detection (was: Television)

[Senectus -]

Being open source software, these sorts of improvements are going on as you 
think of them.. mostly because your writing it (figuratively speaking of 
course).

Senectus



"Imagine a school with children that can read and write, but with teachers 
who cannot, and you have a metaphor of the Information Age in which we 
live."   - Peter Cochrane


>On Mon, 2 Feb 2004 12:42, Lawrie Abbott wrote:
> > I wonder how it can tell the difference between an advert and the
> > 'show' at all?  As far as I am aware there is no difference in the
> > tranmitted signal although adverts _usually_ are louder (overall) and
> > the colors are much more saturated. But automatic detection of
> > adverts based on these qualities would be extremely unreliable.
>
>You could improve on MythTV's score by assuming that a blackout was an
>add, but keep storing the video long enough to check for loud colours
>and sounds. Alternatively, or in addition, you could store the whole
>lot and flag bits as "I think this is a section of adverts" which can
>then be toggled later (also useful if you *want* to see a particular
>advert). I wasn't at Tridge's long enough to find out how his
>Linux-based timeshifter worked.
>
>Cheers; Leon
>
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