This article was posted to the Usenet group alt.hackers in
1995; any technical information is probably outdated.
O.J. Mute-O-Matic (tm) hack
Article: 8794 of alt.hackers From: eric@goonsquad.spies.com (Eric Smith) Newsgroups: alt.hackers Subject: O.J. Mute-O-Matic (tm) hack Date: 28 Sep 1995 07:06:49 GMT Organization: Internet Wiretap Lines: 13 Approved: barely Distribution: world Message-ID: ERIC.95Sep28000649@goonsquad.spies.com NNTP-Posting-Host: goonsquad.spies.com Status: RO
So Rich had this idea to combine two of our previous hacks, the 4-chip closed caption decoder with RS-232 output, and a Sony IR remote, with a little bit of new code to make the O.J. Mute-O-Matic (tm). It detects references to O.J. (and other related keywords) in the closed caption data, and either mutes the audio for a while, or changes the channel. Too bad we didn't do this a year ago. Info and code for the two earlier hacks can be found at: http://www.spies.com/~eric/pic/ Eric