[woodruffw]

> it would have to have the smarts to distinguish between the actual tv show and a commercial but I'd play good money for something like this

Pre-CALM[1], you might have been able to use the relative volume change to detect ads. Not sure if that will work anymore. Some kind of visual/audio fingerprinting might work best these days, collecting information about new ads in the process.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commercial_Advertisement_Loudn...

[cgriswald]

I was thinking along the same lines. In response to CALM they started basically maxing out the sounds of the commercials. Technically they’re no louder than the loudest part of the program but it’s ALL that loud so it sounds like they’re yelling at you. I don’t know how easy that would be to detect versus a loud sequence in a show, but I think detecting it as one metric amongst others would be doable.