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

["Mattias" <chaos_in_net@gmx.net>]

the idea of adskipping whille recording is not so new and the developers at
odsoft (maker of windvdlive) had thought about it and said it is possible
but very hard becaus of moving logos like in rtl2 and the other problem ist
the speed needed to do this

but who needs it the cutting works better then perfect

mattias
----- Original Message -----
From: "Emil Naepflein" <Emil.Naepflein@philosys.de>
To: <vdr@linuxtv.org>
Sent: Thursday, May 02, 2002 2:12 PM
Subject: [vdr] Re: Ad skipping - was: PVR users are thieves


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