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by windexh8er 2623 days ago
> Seems like this is something machine learning would be very good at, given that commercial visuals look very different from “real” show visuals

This feature was in MythTV literally 10+ years ago. Commercials are very easy to detect using simple methods [0].

[0] https://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Commercial_detection