[mythtv-users] commercial skipping recorded shows

[Isaac Richards]

On Friday 09 May 2003 01:54 am, Craig Longman wrote:
> i'd like some help confirming/refuting one of the problems i'm seeing
> with mythtv.  when i record a show in the background and watch it later,
> the commercial skipping works quite nicely and is very fast.  however,
> if i've watched the show 'live' while its being recorded, then the
> commercial skip sucks, taking 10s of seconds to skip through minutes of
> video.  at least, i'm getting reasonably confident that watching it live
> causes the commercial skipping to suck, but i'd like someone else to get
> similar results before i presume thats the issue.
>
> anyone else notice this?

With hardware encoding, it can't pre-process the video and look for 
commercials while it records.  So in live tv mode, it has to decode every 
frame when you tell it to skip the commercial.  Quite naturally, this takes a 
bit of time, as you've seen.

Isaac