[vdr] Re: Proposal: cutting out advertising automatically

[Steffen Koch <Steffen.Koch@sphinx-electronics.de>]

Andreas Mair wrote:
>>2. We could analyze the MPEG-2 data stream for a number of sensible
>>criteria (sender logo present; average loudness; ratio of scene change;
>>etc, anything else?, then produce a probability for commercials) and
>>produce a suggestion for cutting.
> I like this idea. There had been some discussion on this list some time ago.
> I believe that commercials shouldn't be cut automatically, but the marks 
> should be set. So it would be possible to skip a commercial while viewing or 
> manually start cutting when the marks are verified. With this method you 
> won't cut/miss part of the recording.
This sounds indeed good.

> Don't like this idea. How would you manage the data? There has to be an entry 
> for every recording any time it started. I mean MovieXYZ at 20:15 o'clock 
> will have commercials placed different then the same movie repeated at 03:00 
> o'clock. Not to speak of the movie repeated a year later at another channel. 
> And finally, how do you want to handle the leading minutes before the movie 
> starts (everyone can set it to his/her preference)?
This is IMHO no problem. You could use the PTS for that.



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