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?

  • voxel
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    66 months ago

    lol hdcp will absolutely fuck you over with this one.

    • @[email protected]
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      26 months ago

      Isn’t HDCP crap? If I remember correctly it’s extremely easy to buy HDCP compliant splitters and stuff that just strips all protection.

      • voxel
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        -16 months ago

        yep but without that hardware good luck

        • @[email protected]
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          56 months ago

          Sure, I guess it’s a hard problem unless you have the easy solution. Fortunately the easy solution is easy.

        • @astropenguin5
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          16 months ago

          Well yea, the solution is buying that hardware. Which should be pretty damn easy.