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Nowadays advertisements are generally CC'ed. However, since most commercials have music, they have the music symbol in the CC stream, you may want to hunt for c
by Jun8 15y ago
Nowadays advertisements are generally CC'ed. However, since most commercials have music, they have the music symbol in the CC stream, you may want to hunt for cues like that.
- Turing_Machine 15y agoSince the caption text is always the same, you could set it up so you could push a button when a commercial came on and push it again when the commercial was over. Then it could scan backward to the previous black transition before each button press to find the actual beginning and end of the commercial, and store the caption text in between. The next time it sees that caption text, automute. :-) At least this way you'd only have to see a specific commercial once. You'd probably need to do some tuning of the number of keywords it sees before going to mute -- it'd be a tradeoff between false alarms and having to listen to more of the commercials.
- Wilya 15y agoIn other words, use your regular antispam system on TV programs. I wonder if it would effectively work.
- tlrobinson 15y agoOr just look for identical CC text on multiple shows/channels.