[TBA]: Automated match parsing

[StevenB]

As suggested by Greg Marra, this thread is to discuss a system to automatically parse matches.

I had initially suggested using the match audio to detect the beginning and end of the matches. The reason for this is that the audio is always available, and the audio markers are well-known. Also, the audio has a much low data rate than the video, which theoretically means that it requires less processing. I happen to be taking a class in digital signal processing, so I have a couple ideas of how to actually implement this.

On the other hand, Greg has mentioned a LabVIEW VI in the works which is able to work based on the match progress bar on the bottom of the screen. There is less noise in the video, so it should be somewhat more reliable than audio. However, I have seen instances where the progress bar wasn't shown for the first few seconds of the match. Presumably, a video-based method could also parse the text on the bar and automatically grab the regional code and match number.

Obviously, if we could get some kind of feed from the FMS, that would be even better.

Thoughts or ideas?