[mythtv-users] How do you use the commercial skipping function?

[Ivan Kowalenko]

On Sep 9, 2009, at 19.54, Steve V wrote:

> Play the recording, go into edit mode (E on the keyboard - or use  
> the menu) then Z to load the commercials breaks, etc to return to  
> play mode.
>     This seems a bit cumbersome and also from a remote I have to  
> setup a button to map to Z to load the breaks as I couldn't find any  
> other way to laod the         breaks.
>     But it has the advantage of once done, whenever the recording is  
> played the commercials are skipped.

It also has the advantage of reducing the size of your files.

> Play the recording, go into menu, choose - notify for commercial  
> skipping and when the notification comes on screen push the button  
> to skip to the end of the commercial break.
>     Is there a way to make this a default for all recordings so I  
> don't have to choose it every time I play a recording?

There is a setting in Playback to automatically skip commercials. I've  
used it in the past with a high degree of success (though some early  
episodes of Battlestar Galactcia threw it for a loop). Everyone in my  
family loved it.