Re: [V4L] Automatically cutting commercials

[Marco A. Sousa]

Thomas Hargrove ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:

> When doing my design project review, we talked to someone from a company
> that makes all sorts of hardware for digital broadcast (for compression,
> adding logos, multiplexing, etc...)

Do u know some internet place I can find more info about this equipment? 

> 
> He said that broadcast video starts off with some sort of queue signal that
> tell the downstream companies where to place adds.  I guess there was some
> abuse of this data, so everyone removes the queues before they get to the
> consumer.  We asked if there was anything similar in the vertical blank, but
> he said no.

:(

So this explain why the ads are blank in satellite but not in a regional TV.

Back to asking grandma to press pause once in commercials.

regards,
Marco



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