[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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