[mythtv-users] How reliable is Commercial skip?

[Nick Rout]

On Fri, Sep 9, 2011 at 8:19 AM, Tim Draper <veehexx at gmail.com> wrote:
> i'm on a fairly recent 0.24 release (updated around 2 weeks ago), and for a
> while i've seen commercial skipping not as reliable as i remember it to be.
>
> basically, mythtv seem to miss the first program-start flag (have to
> manually fast forward to the start of the program) and the middle advert
> break detection seems to work 90% of the time. some channels seem worse than
> others.
>
> i have advert detection using all available methods, and is set to 'notify,
> no skip', so i have to manually skip the breaks.
>
> is this typical behaviour, or do i need to investigate further?

Often depends on your market - where in the world are you?