I suspect we got off on the wrong foot when I called it a product instead of just a project idea, but I don’t actually disagree with that stance. Cheers.
Decipher0771
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That’s the act I was thinking of. I’m almost certain web streamers will say it doesn’t apply to them…..and it’s definitely one of those things you’d take for granted until you hit the “new” streaming medium and realize why it was necessary in the first place.
A modern TiVo pretty much what I had in mind. I believe they detected commercials by a couple seconds of blank between shows and commercial breaks. Using ML based object/logo detection might be a modern way to do it.
I hear the way hdmi splitters work is by providing a full hdcp 4k stream to one side and use hdcp fallback to 720p for the other side. That should work sufficiently for identifying an ad or not.
And yeah I didn’t mean a commercial product, more an OSS project that could be useful for hobbyists.
True….I’m hoping to expand on it to full ad detection and blocking eventually tho.
Yeah I think hdcp and reprocessing would be most difficult. There are hdmi splitter devices like those used for coloured bias lighting that I think could be used….similarly I think the processing actually isn’t unsolvable, it’s not much different than object detection from a live camera stream. I agree re-encoding the stream would be too hardware intensive for anything “cheap” like a pi, hence the secondary device control alternative initially, but analyzing the stream should be possible.
Because I think this could be neat product…..kinda like PiKVM, but maybe using ML to detect ads and make it a nice community tool to block in a device independent way. like hardware Adblock.
OLEDs should be able to far exceed it. Phosphors don’t respond nearly as fast.
Reminds me of OS/2
Seriously we did this in 1998, why this again??
No love for hs/link?