SageTV's beta commercial detection

[Anonymous]

Over in the SageTV forums (http://forums.freytechnologies.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=6654) malore has posted a beta program w/ interface in SageTV to automatically detect commercials and for each recorded show it generates a cutlist basically with the beginning and ending frames for each set of commercials.

This is done with pretty good accuracy even though the code is not totally complete. I was just wondering what it would take to convert these files into something usable in VideoReDo.


This is what the contents of each text file generated looks like:

186 5868
6865 8675
31532 39599
51783 57586


Very simple. If you can add support for this kind of file that would be great as you did for BeyondTV or if you can please join us in the Sage TV forums (http://forums.freytechnologies.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=6654) and let malore know what he can do to better support your program that would be great.

[DanR]

I'll see you over at Sage TV. I should be pretty simple to support, either on your end or ours. Someone need to translate the frame #'s into time stamps. For most analog capture cards this isn't hard, simply multiply the frame # by the frame rate (i.e. 25 FPS or 29.97 FPS). However, for ATI AIW cards and some DVB broadcasts its much tougher due to 3:2 pulldown that is intermittently applied.

I'll go into more detail over on Sage.