I’m getting tired of the extremely loud ads on that don’t seem to be subject to the old TV broadcasting laws that prevent them from being blasted 10db louder than the actual content. Wondering if there’s stuff out there that would let me take the hdmi stream from my Apple TV or other streaming source, and do ad detection like the olden days so that it could just mute or do volume leveling at least.

I suppose something very basic might just be an hdmi splitter to a rpi with hdmi that’ll detect ads via the black screens or “this ad will over over in 30s” overlays, then send a mute signal over CEC or something to a receiver or TV….but would be nice if it could modify the hdmi signal directly.

Thoughts on what to search for to do something like this?

  • Cobrachicken@lemmy.world
    133·
    7 months ago

    If this pisses you off so much that you think about processing the HDMI streams, why don’t you directly go to sail the high seas?

    • Decipher0771OP
      611·
      7 months ago

      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.

      • just_another_person@lemmy.world
        811·
        7 months ago

        So you came here with zero technical expertise or knowledge about the situation, and asking for specific steps on how to do this in order to make a product? 😂🤣🤦 Hope there was some profit sharing involved somewhere.

        How would ML detect ads? Do you know the difference between ML and CV? You may want to start there.

        Get a Pihole or AdGuard endpoint and hope for the best if all you want is to remove ads.

        • refalo@programming.dev
          82·
          7 months ago

          So you came here with zero technical expertise or knowledge about the situation, and asking for specific steps on how to do this in order to make a product?

          no need to be rude

        • Decipher0771OP
          511·
          7 months ago

          And you came here with nothing productive to add 🤣 we can both make useless comments it seems

            • Decipher0771OP
              11·
              7 months ago

              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.