[mythtv-users] What major features are planned for 0.27?

Jerry Rubinow jerrymr at gmail.com
Mon Nov 26 16:13:01 UTC 2012


On Mon, Nov 26, 2012 at 11:09 AM, Jim Oltman <jim.oltman at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Mon, Nov 26, 2012 at 9:56 AM, Stephan Seitz <
> stse+mythtv at fsing.rootsland.net> wrote:
>
>> On Mon, Nov 26, 2012 at 10:45:38AM -0500, Jerry Rubinow wrote:
>>
>>> I agree with you as far as the problems (needing to re-hear dialog,
>>> manual commercial skip), but I find jump back 7 seconds/jump forward 30
>>> seconds to be infinitely preferable to FF/RW to solve them.  What makes
>>> jump bad for you to the point where FF/RW is crucial for these problems?
>>>
>>
>> If you use FF/RW you get a visual feedback where you are and can stop. If
>> you jump XX seconds back or ahead you don’t know where you are.
>>
>> There are scenes in movies which are boring so I use FF to play faster
>> while I can still see the scene.
>
>
> Prime example:  Matrix: Reloaded
>
> During the "dance/sex" scene.  BORING/Dumb.
>

There's a whole other discussion for whether that entire movie should be
skipped, but to the point, those are not the uses you said FF/RW were
crucial for.

-Jerry
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