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

[Peter Bennett]

On 10/14/22 17:48, Peter Bennett wrote:
>
>
> On 10/14/22 17:17, George Bingham wrote:
>>
>>
>> On Fri, Oct 14, 2022 at 8:20 AM Peter Bennett <pb.mythtv at gmail.com> 
>> wrote:
>>
>>     I have implemented in leanfront MythTV, use of seek table to
>>     speed up
>>     jumps, and commercial skip.
>>
>>     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.
>>
>>     You can download it from the download site
>>     https://dl.orangedox.com/pCBmBm under Trial Versions, Commercial
>>     Skip.
>>
>>     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:
>>
>>     - 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
>>
>>     Seek table is enabled by default. You can disable it from the
>>     settings
>>     if it causes problems.
>>
>>     Peter
>>
>>     _______________________________________________
>>
>>
>> Hi Peter,
>>
>>
>> I installed this new leanfront version on my phone (pixel 4) and on 
>> my chromecast with google tv (original version - not the latest one).
>>
>> 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?
>>
>> Thanks for this effort! Really want to use leanfront on my android 
>> devices but don't because I value commercial skip.
>>
>> George
>>
> 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 tested this on V31 and I see it crashes right after start of playback.

The problem is the seek tables, not the comm skip.

For now, you can fix it by going to settings, advanced, and disable seek 
table. After that playback and commercial skip are working.

I will get a fix for the seek table problem.

Peter
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