[mythtv-users] Commercial Skip and seek table in leanfront

[James Abernathy]

On Fri, Oct 14, 2022 at 5:48 PM Peter Bennett <pb.mythtv at gmail.com> wrote:

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> On 10/14/22 17:17, George Bingham wrote:
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> On Fri, Oct 14, 2022 at 8:20 AM Peter Bennett <pb.mythtv at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> I have implemented in leanfront MythTV, use of seek table to speed up
>> jumps, and commercial skip.
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>> Anybody who is interested and uses commercial skip, I would like any
>> feedback. Commercial skip requires that you have run the mythbackend
>> commercial flagging job.
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>> You can download it from the download site
>> https://dl.orangedox.com/pCBmBm under Trial Versions, Commercial Skip.
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>> You can enable or disable commercial skip in the settings. Also you can
>> enable or disable it while playing by using the playback menu. You can
>> get to the playback menu 3 ways while playing:
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>> - Press center button and select the new MENU icon (rightmost icon on
>> the first row)
>> - Press menu button on the remote if your remote has one
>> - Long press the center button
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>> Seek table is enabled by default. You can disable it from the settings
>> if it causes problems.
>>
>> Peter
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> Hi Peter,
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> I installed this new leanfront version on my phone (pixel 4) and on my
> chromecast with google tv (original version - not the latest one).
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> When I play a recording that has had commercial skip run on it (and
> usually edited manually) it just plays the first second or so and goes back
> to the menu. If I then tell it to play again, I get the same thing or the
> app stops.
>
> I am using v31 of the backend... would this be dependent on having the
> latest version?
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> Thanks for this effort! Really want to use leanfront on my android devices
> but don't because I value commercial skip.
>
> George
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> Possibly the API on V31 is missing something. I will test it on V31 and
> see if I can find what the problem is. I have only tested it on latest
> master. This is why it is a trial version :)
>
> Peter
>

I'm testing with v32 latest and it's not working.  I have a test v33
Master backend, I'll set up some recordings there with commflags and test.

Jim A
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