[mythtv-users] commercial skipping on the Sci-Fi channel

[Raphael]

Josh White wrote:
> 
> 
> On Mon, Aug 4, 2008 at 10:54 PM, Raphael <rpooser at gmail.com 
> <mailto:rpooser at gmail.com>> wrote:
> 
>     Josh White wrote:
>      > Does anyone else have trouble with commercial skipping in shows
>     recorded
>      > from the Sci-Fi channel? For example, if I record an episode of Star
>      > Trek Voyager on Sci-Fi, the auto commercial skipping never seems to
>      > work.  If I record an episode of the same show on Spike TV, the
>      > commercial skipping seems to work flawlessly.  Has anyone else seen
>      > similar behavior?
>      >
>      >
> 
>     Sci fi has been bad for me for quite a while.
>     It was fine for a year then one day it went completely nuts. On a lot of
>     shows I had to just turn off the autoskip.
>     I just chalked it up to SciFi coming up with ways to trick autoskipping
>     DVRs. I see plenty of things that look suspicious like this. Often the
>     logo will stay during the first few commercials, especially commercials
>     for shows. And then it will take a while to come back; the show will be
>     on for 30-45 seconds before the logo reappears. Another thing I've
>     noticed is a near-instantaneous transition to commercials - no blank
>     screen at all. This fools the flagger some of the time.
> 
>     I have also noticed that some channels work much better than others.
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> 
> Raphael,
> 
> In my case, I don't have to turn it off at all, the commercials just 
> never skip, at all.  And if I try to manually skip it, I end up moving 
> ahead like 40 minutes within the show.  In that case, I just use "skip 
> ahead" a few times, which moves you forward 30 seconds, and then I skip 
> back if I feel I've missed something worth seeing when I see the show is 
> back on. 
> 
> 

Ahh ok I've misunderstood then. Brad's comments sound like a good idea. 
I've gone and changed flaggers from time to time, but have always been 
way too lazy to actually systematically do it and document anything in 
my 3 years of using myth :)