trurl Posted January 1, 2016 Posted January 1, 2016 WatchESPN uses Adobe flash, and shows a message saying 'commercial break in progress' (or something) and plays annoying music where the commercials should be. I would like to detect this and auto-mute. Do you think it is best to try a pixel or OCR match to look for the text, or maybe try to detect the music? Any ideas for a general approach would be appreciated.
trurl Posted January 1, 2016 Author Posted January 1, 2016 Adblock doesn't work for this?Nope. I think there would need to be actual ads for that to happen. They don't have ads on the web version of ESPN, just the filler material I mentioned to fill the time when the cable version has commercials.
trurl Posted January 1, 2016 Author Posted January 1, 2016 Okay, I will interpret silence to mean I should use pixels. I know y'all have an aversion to talking about pixels in case some punk uses the tech to make the ultimate Dig Dug bot.I'll give it a shot and report how it goes.
computergroove Posted January 1, 2016 Posted January 1, 2016 Does something change in the html when a commercial is played? Autoit needs to detect a change for an action to be triggered. Pixels is a great way to do it. Digging into the code for the website would be better. Get Scite to add a popup when you use a 3rd party UDF -> http://www.autoitscript.com/autoit3/scite/docs/SciTE4AutoIt3/user-calltip-manager.html
orbs Posted January 1, 2016 Posted January 1, 2016 Digging into the code for the website would be better. agreed, but if no change is found at the HTML source code, then here's another direction:detect the annoying sound to trigger your script into action- mute it, or preferably just lower the volume, so your script can detect the ending of that sound, to trigger the rollback to normal volume level. Signature - my forum contributions: Spoiler UDF: LFN - support for long file names (over 260 characters) InputImpose - impose valid characters in an input control TimeConvert - convert UTC to/from local time and/or reformat the string representation AMF - accept multiple files from Windows Explorer context menu DateDuration - literal description of the difference between given dates WinPose - simultaneous fluent move and resize Apps: Touch - set the "modified" timestamp of a file to current time Show For Files - tray menu to show/hide files extensions, hidden & system files, and selection checkboxes SPDiff - Single-Pane Text Diff Magic Math - a math puzzle Demos: Title Bar Menu - click the window title to pop-up a menu
computergroove Posted January 1, 2016 Posted January 1, 2016 I hate sports and I'm watching this channel and I am at a complete loss. I dont see anything that identifies that it is in commercial mode. The autoit info tool provides no help. There are a huge amount of commercials. There's even commercials popping up during the game. Get Scite to add a popup when you use a 3rd party UDF -> http://www.autoitscript.com/autoit3/scite/docs/SciTE4AutoIt3/user-calltip-manager.html
InunoTaishou Posted January 1, 2016 Posted January 1, 2016 Does the memory change on the flash plugin?
computergroove Posted January 1, 2016 Posted January 1, 2016 You can use cheat engine to try to find out I guess. What would you search for? Flash is hard to read into. Get Scite to add a popup when you use a 3rd party UDF -> http://www.autoitscript.com/autoit3/scite/docs/SciTE4AutoIt3/user-calltip-manager.html
trurl Posted January 2, 2016 Author Posted January 2, 2016 Does the memory change on the flash plugin?Good question, yes it goes down more than half. So this might be really easy using ProcessGetStats.
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