Not decoding HDMI HDCP or anything, but a webcam + AI or whatever that watches football with me and mutes ads. Similar to plane detection, maybe. Are there any projects like this?
* auto commercial block using audio fingerprinting and duration, so if it finds the ad, it knows the ad will last 10-15-30-60 seconds.
* frame-slowdown. often ads just show way too many frame jumps in rapid succession. If this is detected, visual mute would freeze one of the frames and only allow a jump after 5-10s.
* visual mute - if the commercial is not identified audibly, have a blur or black box that covers 85% of the center of the screen. you would un-mute it when you recognize your game from the borders.
* logo-blur. OpenCV to recognize most common ad logos and blur or black them
* commercial-over-dub. allow funny joke audio to be played over existing, known commercials. So when they show insurance ads, someone can say "yeah they didn't pay my $40k roof claim because I didn't have hail coverage", right over the insurance logo
* announcer over-dub. This would allow aspiring sports announcers (or comedians) to have their audio played in place of the game audio. This would require some visual sync, which would include a few seconds of delay. I bet there are some really good announcers out there who would love a chance to announce a game. Also some really funny smart-asses , or you could choose a biased announcer who roots with you for YOUR team and disparages the other!
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In Black Mirror, they pause the advertisement when you disable the sound.
So maybe you'll eventually have to use a separate sound system whereby they cannot detect that you're muting it.
Then, they'll track your eyes and require you to watch the screen :)
At which point do you stop consuming?
Check out the recent controversy over Activision and Call of Duty. Evidently the game code requires access to your webcam and the company has patents on using your gameplay to train a bot that play like you do, then uses the idle time to make the bot play while you are away. This bulks up the pool of players ensuring you are matched with people resulting in a good experience for you. There's also a patent detecting your emotional state while you view their in game store, possibly for adjusting price to influence you to buy or spend more.
Source?
>then uses the idle time to make the bot play while you are away
Surely they're better off using a GPU cluster to do training like every other AI company?
What a tragic state of affairs! Computationally detecting human emotion is an open problem in human-computer interaction, and has been for a while now. I wish I had the hubris and audacity to file a process patent which claims to be able to do so.
I do not watch TV but it was in the news.
MBAs think they can enshittfy into perpetuity, but eventually people have enough and leave to whatever the competition is.
The tech cultists won't, will always think "urrhurr let's counter this corporate restriction / government regulation with <stupid tech solution #921>.
It's so rewarding to do simpler things in life instead, f.e. growing your own food and not partake in this "more-and-more pervasive tech spread" BS.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commercial_Advertisement_Loudn...
Or the title bar below. You could do some basic OCR on a Pi, when the team names are readable, keep the volume up, when they are not, disable it.
I think you could do this. If you had a web page logged into the same program it could analyze the video. I wonder if people build "video scraping" from web page tv apps, probably some drm blocking thing.
There also used to be subsonic chimes or something simila on the network tv audio to signal to some other server (maybe at the local tv station?) that would know to automatically run a commericial right now.
I hadn't thought to look for smart meters, but my RTL-SDR (and my Flipper Zero) can pick up all sorts of temperature sensors, etc.
A quick google found this rtlamr project with a number of blog posts about people doing this with it.
I'll post a write up in a few days.