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Well, the benefit then is that crowdsourced tools can skip directly over portions of the video. I already use an app called sponsor block that skips in video sp
by thejarren 3y ago
Well, the benefit then is that crowdsourced tools can skip directly over portions of the video. I already use an app called sponsor block that skips in video sponsored sections.
- zztop44 3y agoNot if it’s randomised. However that would make the video stream harder to cache.
- lamontcg 3y agoThat just moves the battle into identifying the ads when they play and then skipping over them and updating and maintaining the ad-identifier database. And heuristics/ML can probably be used to identify likely unknown ads.
- ryandrake 3y agoYou could probably detect 95% of randomly-inserted ads by just looking at 1. the abrupt change in audio volume and 2. a material change in some visual "fingerprint" of the video scene. If I'm watching Mister Influencer walking around outside talking with their face framed in the middle of the shot, and then all of a sudden, mid-stream, the audio gets 15% louder and the video changes to a meadow to advertise Tide detergent, that can be reliably detected without even ML.
- moritzwarhier 3y agoRegardless of the 95% accuracy claim, I think this would cause to many false positives to be usable. Cuts that change visiual content and audio volume exist in original content, too.