How MythTV Detects and Flags Commercials

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How MythTV Detects and Flags Commercials

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Monday October 30, 2006 @05:19AM from the gotta-love-the-bugs dept.

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... by feld · 2006-10-30 05:27 · Score: 5, Funny

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 by Rob+T+Firefly · 2006-10-30 05:35 · Score: 4, Funny

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.

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Re:What will happen... by PylonHead · 2006-10-30 05:37 · Score: 4, Funny

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.

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SHOCKING NEWS! MythTV linked to Al-Qaida, France by StefanJ · 2006-10-30 05:47 · Score: 4, Funny

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 by Zarniwoop_Editor · 2006-10-30 05:53 · Score: 3, Funny

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

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Re:Why not better commercials? by udderly · 2006-10-30 06:21 · Score: 3, Funny

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.