[mythtv] Commercial Detector questions

2005-12-11 Thread f-myth-users
Another idea (US-centric): those awful TVPG (etc) ratings logos in the upper left, which apparently became mandated after -every- commercial break fairly recently, no doubt because of panic over the wardrobe malfunction incident. In two sizes---godawful huge at the start of the program, and merel

Re: [mythtv] Commercial Detector questions

2005-12-10 Thread Paul Andreassen
On Sat, 10 Dec 2005 05:45 am, Chris Pinkham wrote: > > - Australia doesn't have blanks between ads so changed MAX_COMM_LENGTH > > to match MAX_COMM_BREAK_LENGTH (is this the right thing to do?) > I think that would accomplish what you want yes. In SVN, you could use > the undocumented 'CommDetect

[mythtv] Commercial Detector questions

2005-12-09 Thread f-myth-users
Date: Fri, 9 Dec 2005 17:16:48 -0500 (EST) From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Another idea that might deserve some thought: Looking for the sudden disappearance of closed-captioning information. If anyone's inspired to actually try this, I just dug up a really excellent tool that will help;

Re: [mythtv] Commercial Detector questions

2005-12-09 Thread Robert Johnston
On 12/9/05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hey, whaddya know! It's someone from the MIT Media Lab (Who is famous for such things as this) talking about Machine Learning for Commercial Flagging (Something like a Neural Net, or the like). Perhaps some changes could be made to the "C

[mythtv] Commercial Detector questions

2005-12-09 Thread f-myth-users
Date: Sat, 10 Dec 2005 01:27:11 +0100 From: "Pascal Favre" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> I use commflagging for all my channels, the results depend highly on the channel. There are several options which are global. Would it make sense a user can set the options on each channel, which are p

Re: [mythtv] Commercial Detector questions

2005-12-09 Thread Pascal Favre
From: "Chris Pinkham" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Just to give you an idea of what other things I may be looking into shortly, here are a few things from my TODO: * Keep track of min/max brightness found during logo detection so we can use that information later to determine what is rea

[mythtv] Commercial Detector questions

2005-12-09 Thread f-myth-users
Date: Fri, 9 Dec 2005 14:45:09 -0500 (EST) From: "Chris Pinkham" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Just to give you an idea of what other things I may be looking into shortly, here are a few things from my TODO: * Keep track of min/max brightness found during logo detection so we can

Re: [mythtv] Commercial Detector questions

2005-12-09 Thread Chris Pinkham
> Chris Pinkham and interested persons, > > I've been messing with the commercial detector in 18.1 (very similar to svn > version) to improve detection of Australian ads. Here is what I've found so > far using the ALL method: Yeah, I haven't spent much time recently in the flagger although the

Re: [mythtv] Commercial Detector questions

2005-12-09 Thread Steve Adeff
On Friday 09 December 2005 09:41, Paul Andreassen wrote: > Chris Pinkham and interested persons, > > I've been messing with the commercial detector in 18.1 (very similar to svn > version) to improve detection of Australian ads. Here is what I've found > so far using the ALL method: > > - Strict i

[mythtv] Commercial Detector questions

2005-12-09 Thread Paul Andreassen
Chris Pinkham and interested persons, I've been messing with the commercial detector in 18.1 (very similar to svn version) to improve detection of Australian ads. Here is what I've found so far using the ALL method: - Strict is better because otherwise all white screens detected as blanks.