[mythtv-users] Commercial skip & next weeks preview

Tom Lichti tom at redpepperracing.com
Mon Apr 2 20:31:10 UTC 2007


Michael T. Dean wrote:
> 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.
>   
Ok, that makes sense, if the feature isn't there with auto-skip on 
(which I use).
> 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...
>   
How about now? ;)
> BTW, you didn't re-enable your gencutlist job ( 
> http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/users/229126#229126 ), did 
> you?  ;)
>   
Nope, that's been off since I figured out that was the problem.
>   
>>> 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.
>
>   

Agreed.

Tom


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