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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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From the summary... by darien · 2006-10-30 05:22 · Score: 5, Insightful

Automatic commercial detection is the "killer app" feature that none of the commercial DVR's dare to include.

A sentence that (I think) neatly points up the big problem with the USA's legal system...