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MythTV has a feature to automatically detect commercials in recordings and then automatically skip them upon playback. The problem is that it is not very reliable. Often, commercials aren’t recognized, or non-commercials are recognized as commercials. Here are my efforts to improve this bit of functionality:
#1 by John Sturgeon on Thu Apr 13, 2006 - 1:32 pm
Interesting idea. A couple questions: 1) how does this compare to the current logo detection code that is already part of MythTV? 2) have you approached the devs (or are you one of them) with this idea?
As a side note, I have found commercial detection to be extremely reliable (for network television, at least), and in roughly 70 shows watched since the 0.19 upgrade, I’ve only had one show mess up, and it wasn’t because of the detection, it was because the show segment was shorter than the commercial segment, and the last two commercial cuts were inverted (meaning, it thought the show was the commercial).