On Tue, Apr 12, 2005 at 04:12:31PM -0400, Colin Smillie wrote: > On Apr 12, 2005 1:06 PM, Ramon Redondo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > If you read elsewhere in this thread (although not in the many lines > > you quoted in your short reply), commercial breaks can easily be > > longer or shorter on different affiliates of the same network. > > > > Here's a relevant quote from Meatwad: > > > In a perfect world, all of the commercial breaks would all happen at the > > > same time. Everywhere. > > > > > In reality, they do not. Every master cable headend follows a local > > > origination commercial insertion schedule sent daily by their traffic > > > and billing department. > > I think this would probably still give you enough to create a cut-list > that you could share. You'd have the show, the time it aired and the > cable feed ( as defined by xmltv ). > > Even if the cutlist was only used as another data point for commflag. > This would reduce the effect of cutlist poisoning.
Another cool trick that could be done, of strong benefit to us west-coast people, is that people with east-coast feeds could upload the results of their mythcommflags to a server, and other people could download those. Now even if the feed is not exactly the same, a smarter version of mythcommflag could use it as a starting map. For example, it could go to the cutpoints and hunt near them for the transitions it is looking for (logo on/off, blank frame, etc.) If it doesn't find them anywhere nearby, it gives up and re-flags the old way. But if it does find them it has a new mapping and can let you skip commercials while watching just a few minutes behind live -- with no CPU costs. And even if you watch much later it's a lot less CPU cost.
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