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

James Abernathy jfabernathy at gmail.com
Tue Oct 18 13:59:08 UTC 2022


On Tue, Oct 18, 2022 at 9:32 AM John Pilkington <johnpilk222 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> On 18/10/2022 12:54, James Abernathy wrote:
> >
> >
> > On Tue, Oct 18, 2022 at 6:46 AM James Abernathy <jfabernathy at gmail.com
> > <mailto:jfabernathy at gmail.com>> wrote:
> >
> >
> >     Something strange happened during testing this morning.   I recorded
> >     a program last night on CBS with commercial flagging turned on as a
> >     post processing job.
> >
> >     This morning I used mythfrontend to correct some of the flagging
> >     mistakes and then saved the cut list.  I was planning on watching it
> >     with Leanfront, but started to watch it with mythfrontend. this is
> >     version v32.0+fixes.202209121203.b6ef30288f~ubuntu22.04.1
> >
> >     I had an issue at 45 minutes into the 60 minute recording where the
> >     playback processed the commercial skip fine, but it got stuck coming
> >     out of the commercial.  It had a black screen and audio noise loop
> >     over and over. I skipped forward and then backed it up just after
> >     the skip started and it played.
> >
> >     This made me wonder about what others had said about leanfront
> >     getting stuck about 2/3 into a recording playback?
> >
> >     I'll try this on leanfront v0-381 and see what happens at that exact
> >     time.
> >
> >     The other strange thing is that I went to mythfrontend settings to
> >     turn off commercial skipping in video playback and it was already
> >     turned off.  So how did it even skip commercials in the first place??
>
> Jim:  I hunted around frontend setup earlier to find a setting like
> that, without success.  Perhaps my lightly customised theme has lost it?
> It started as MythCenter-wide but I may have missed something.
>
> John
>

I'm using the Functionality 31.2 theme.  With that theme I use:
Setup > Video > Playback > Commercial skip, where my Automatically Skip
Commercials is set to off, but it skips them if they are marked in either
the comm flags or cut list. It's in the same place in MythCenter-Wide 1.10

Jim A
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