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

[Nate Bargmann]

* Johnny <jarpublic at gmail.com> [2009 Sep 09 19:07 -0500]:
> > 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?
> >
> > Is anyone using other methods regularly, successfully and with high WAF?
> 
> You can set the default method in Settings -> TV Settings -> Playback
> -> Commercial Skip
> 
> Also it is helpful to limit
> the maximum commercial skip to something like 5 minutes. That will
> prevent you from skipping a major portion of you show when the
> commercial is flagged incorrectly.

I shortened mine down to 3 minutes or so for maximum skip length which
helps but hasn't eliminated the flagging job from skipping the very end
of the F1 races on Speed.  Otherwise it's quite good.  Overall the
commercial skipping feature works quite well for me.

- Nate >>

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