Re: Linux to remove TV commercials?

["Andrew Smith" <rhml k1k2 com>]

> Marco Fioretti wrote:
> 
>>Hello,
>>
>>We recently agreed that one possible real world use for
>>those huge disk they force us to buy these days is for
>>VCR functionality and video editing in general. :-)
>>
>>This and another post on this list prompts me to ask 
>>about an old dream of mine:
>>
>>once you have set up a Linux-PC based VCR with cron or web based
>>
> this goal is being pursued on video-list, apparently with some success.
> 
> Its also a reason to fear DMCA; theyll do some trivial little stunt,
> perhaps removing an occaisonal sync pulse, and call that encryption.
> Then youre a criminal for fixing it.

Actually, off the top of my head ... and I have no idea if you
can do this with any available software ... but ...

Could you just simply mark each signal change (i.e. from show to advert,
advert to advert, or advert to show) and if it was less than something
like 2 minutes ago - just delete that section - or jump back to the
beginning of the current section  - if it is quick enought - and continue
recording from there?
Of course you'd have to handle the start of the show differently since
often the first scene before intro/aderts can be quite short.

Just a thought ... or something to expand upon
-- 
-Cheers
-Andrew

MS ... if only he hadn't been hang gliding!