[vdr] Re: Proposal: cutting out advertising automatically

[Matthias Schniedermeyer <ms@citd.de>]

On Tue, Oct 22, 2002 at 04:01:37PM +0200, Rene Bartsch wrote:
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Matthias Schniedermeyer" <ms@citd.de>
> To: <vdr@linuxtv.org>
> Sent: Tuesday, October 22, 2002 1:37 PM
> Subject: [vdr] Re: Proposal: cutting out advertising automatically
> 
> 
> > On Tue, Oct 22, 2002 at 12:49:52PM +0200, Christian Pesch wrote:
> > > Matthias Schniedermeyer wrote:
> > >
> > > >I-Frame
> > > >B-Frame
> > > >P-Frame [..]
> > > >
> > > I think, you've missed, that the frame types do no
> > > matter: At the end, they produce 25 images per second.
> > > And then you might compare them to find out, if two
> > > images nearly look the same.
> >
> > But for this you would have to "decode" the frames to pictures.
> >
> > For "only" decoding an mpeg-stream to pictures you need about the power
> > of an PII/III 500Mhz to do that in real-time. Now you have to add the
> > time/power you need to analyze the picture.
> >
> > OK. Decoding could be done by the DVB-S card but i don't think that you
> > can watch via TV-Set and at the same time DMA the picture into the
> > memory of the computer.
> 
> KVDR does this. It copies from the V4L-device into the graphic-card and it's
> also running deinterlacers.
> But the finger-printing will need a lot of horsepowers and well force the
> broadcasters to PIP-advertisement ...

It's in the nature of KVDR to do it, question is if it would work with
the "normal" VDR when you want to see the picture via the plug on the
card on the TV-set.




Bis denn

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