How MythTV Detects and Flags Commercials

peterdaly writes "Automatic commercial detection is the "killer app" feature that none of the commercial DVR's dare to include. MythTV's automatic commercial detection does a great job of properly separating commercials from content. Here's how the commercial flagging works."

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Re:From the summary...

[feld]

the coolest thing is that they've said on the mailing lists that if they start forcing / flagging commercials so you have to watch them and you can't skip through them, MythTV will use those flags to skip the commercials entirely.

Ahh, the power of chee^H^H^H^Hopen source.

Re:Article Text

[Rob T Firefly]

Five groups of 30 second scenes all grouped together may be a good indication of a block of commercials.

That's no good, it'd mark MTV's entire broadcast day as one big block of commercials.... oh, wait.

Re:What will happen...

[PylonHead]

I was just drinking my TenRen's hot green tea when I saw your post, and I thought that I should use my new Dell Dimension 9150 to point out that, not only are you right, but that it's been happening for some time now.

SHOCKING NEWS! MythTV linked to Al-Qaida, France

[StefanJ]

Homeland Security and the CCLA (Concerned Citizens Liking Advertising*) can now reveal the horrible truth:

MythTV is a front for American's sworn enemy, Al-Qaida.

Also, some people who use MythTV have French accents, and many others have eaten French Bread.

Do the right thing. Install a wholesome, American operating system on your MythTV box and run a Advertising Ready (tm)** PVR solution.

It's the patriotic thing to do.

And we'll be watching.

* A product of the National Association of Broadcasters.

** Advertising Ready is a registered trademark of your friends and fellow consumers at AWMC (Americans Welcoming Mind Control) ***

*** A product of [REDACTED BY HOMELAND SECURITY]

Re:Slashdotted

[Zarniwoop_Editor]

It's not slashdotted... it's just auto skipping the commercials.. ;-)

Not gonna happen

[Anonymous Coward]

Look. Its this simple. The let this out. It will kill the advertising INDUSTRY. I say INDUSTRY in all capitols to hopefully hammer home that advertising is a HUGE piece of the economy now. Cut it out and thousands (if not millions?) loose their jobs. So call the advertisers what you like, they are people like you and me trying to keep their jobs from dissapearing. And you would too, if put in the same place.

Re:Why not better commercials?

[udderly]

Maybe MythTV can also remove the BS filler that is in programming too. As an example take any HGTV half hour TV show:

Step 1(Minutes 0-2). Useless introduction and program intro
Step 2(Minutes 3-5). Explain the situation
Step 3(Minutes 6-8). Commercials
Step 4(Minutes 9-10). Re-explain the situation
Step 5(Minutes 11-14). Try to create some drama out of thin air
Step 6(Minutes 15-17). Commercials
Step 7(Minutes 18-19). Re-explain the situation
Step 8(Minutes 20-23). Try to create some more drama out of thin air
Step 9(Minutes 24-26). Commercials
Step 10(Minutes 27-29). Restate what happened
Step 11(Minutes 29-30). Cue the music and intro the next program

As you can see, there's not too much real show in there.

Re:From the summary...

[StikyPad]

Hopefully skip it.