[mythtv] Commercial flagging paper in December IEEE Computer

[Fred Squires]

On 1/3/07, Dave Sherohman <esper at sherohman.org> wrote:
>
> On Wed, Jan 03, 2007 at 11:17:17AM -0500, Fred Squires wrote:
> > >Speaking of that.... I don't know how many times I have wished there
> was a
> > >binding/button in myth for  "the last ad skip was crap and I just want
> to
> > >undo it and watch through it without skipping" - have I missed
> something,
> > >and it's already in there?   - or is there an alternate way of getting
> the
> > >same thing?
>
> > If you press the skip back button quickly after skipping forward (I
> don't
> > remember the time limit) myth will jump back to the spot that you
> previously
> > skipped from, instead of to the previous flag.
>
> If only it were that simple...  In 0.18, at least (no, I'm not
> obsesssively up-to-date), if any sort of 'skip back' function (even
> 'jump to beginning of recording'!) crosses over the start of a detected
> commercial block and commercial auto-skip is on, it jumps to the end
> of the detected commercial block - even if the end of that block is
> later than where you were when you told it to go back.  Undoing a bad
> commercial skip thus requires going into the menus, turning off auto-skip,
> jumping back to the previous ad marker (possibly more than once), and
> (optionally) turning auto-skip back on.
>
> I haven't heard about a fix for this being part of the 0.19 or 0.20
> releases, but it could have been slipped in without being mentioned,
> so I have no idea whether it applies to current versions or not.
>

It was added after .18, but I don't know whether it was added in .19 or .20,
because I skipped .19.
I also don't know how it effects auto-skip, because I don't use auto-skip.

-- 
It was supposed to be so Easy.
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