[mythtv-users] Commercial skip & next weeks preview

[Michael T. Dean]

On 04/02/2007 03:19 PM, Tom Lichti wrote:
> Michael T. Dean wrote:
>   
>> On 04/02/2007 02:30 PM, Jon Boehm wrote:
>>> Is there a way to tell myth not to skip with in the last ~4 min of a
>>> recording.  It keeps skipping to the end or so near the end that by the time
>>> I react it jump to the delete menu.  I'm missing the preview for next week.
>>> In order to see it I have to play again and skip to near the end.
>> In SVN trunk, commercial skips that would take you to the end of the 
>> recording are ignored (and, if a "manual" skip, an OSD telling you it's 
>> the end of the recording is displayed).
> I don't see that with my SVN trunk install. It will quite happily skip 
> to the end of the file, missing the 'preview' stuff (in the case of 
> Survivor) or those short scenes they sometimes show at the end (The 
> Office and Two and a Half Men come to mind). Is there a setting 
> somewhere I'm missing?
>   

/me hides

Actually, it was our last thread on this topic that made me imply that 
it works with or without auto-skip ( 
http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/users/217407#217407 , where 
the relevent issues start with Chris Pinkham's post at 
http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/users/217459#217459 ).

As mentioned in that thread, if auto-skip is off (i.e. it's set to 
notify), it definitely works.

However, it seems that no-one made the changes that Chris Pinkham had 
mentioned ( 
http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/users/217500#217500 ) so 
that it would work with auto-skip enabled.  I thought I remembered 
someone having coded a patch and it being committed (and didn't feel 
like changing my config to auto-skip and testing it), but I was wrong.  
Maybe next time I get some Myth-hacking time, I'll code up the patch so 
I'm right next time this comes up...

BTW, you didn't re-enable your gencutlist job ( 
http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/users/229126#229126 ), did 
you?  ;)

>> I actually do this with SVN trunk because it's annoying to 
>> have to move my finger from the commskip button to the skip forward 
>> button when I see the OSD display.
> I'm sure you realize how lazy that sounds, right? :)

I'd admit to being lazy more often, but it's too much work.

Mike