[vdr] Re: Ad skipping - was: PVR users are thieves

[Emil Naepflein <Emil.Naepflein@philosys.de>]

On Thu, 2 May 2002 13:58:15 +0200, Marc Haisenko
<marc.haisenko@software-for-people.com> wrote:

> Does VDR support "ad-skipping" ? I guess this could be done by kind of 
> "pattern-recognition": most TV stations feature a logo in one of the corners, 
> and they disappear while running ads. So if the station logo disappeares the 
> ads begin and if the logo reappears the show continues. To be on the save 
> side one could cut out everything 5 seconds after the disappearing of the 
> logo and 5 seconds before the logo reappears.

As the broadcasters time their breaks very exactly you only have to
press the minute skip 5-10 times to hit the continuation of the program.
;-) Automatic skipping would be nice, but isn't really necessary. BTW,
some stations have a slight overlap of the program and dynamic logos
which would not so easy to handle.

Emil