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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.