<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sun, Oct 16, 2022 at 11:14 AM James Abernathy <<a href="mailto:jfabernathy@gmail.com">jfabernathy@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sun, Oct 16, 2022 at 10:45 AM Peter Bennett <<a href="mailto:pb.mythtv@gmail.com" target="_blank">pb.mythtv@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><br>
On 10/16/22 10:23, James Abernathy wrote:<br>
> It's hard for me to really say what is happening. If I don't manually <br>
> edit the commercials, then I have 90% of the commercials still <br>
> present. So it's hard to know what is working. The automatic scanning <br>
> usually doesn't detect the first part of a string of commercials. <br>
> For example on CBS, on a 4 minute commercial break, it missed the <br>
> first 3 minutes and then skipped. I was hoping that I could manually <br>
> edit with mythfrontend on a PC and then test the commercial skip with <br>
> leanfront.<br>
><br>
> Until the automatic commercial flagging works, I'll just do what I've <br>
> always done, just click forward and backwards a few times. I find that <br>
> it the flagging doesn't stop in time it's almost impossible to <br>
> manually skip backwards to the start of a segment of the program <br>
> because the autoskip won't let you.<br>
><br>
> Jim A<br>
><br>
Commercial scanning is rather unreliable, so if it misses part of a <br>
commercial it is probably the scanning that is wrong. I suggest you <br>
check by running on mythfrontend, to compare the results with leanfront. <br>
If the skips are at the same place then leanfront is working OK and the <br>
scanning may be off.<br>
<br>
With leanfront if you skip into the middle of what is flagged as a <br>
commercial break it will skip to the end of the break, except for the <br>
last break skipped. The last break is an exception so that if while <br>
watching you encounter a commercial break that skips too much you can <br>
easily skip back.<br>
<br>
If you want to skip back to the start of the show, just hold down the <br>
left arrow and it will move backwards rapidly towards the beginning <br>
without doing any commercial skipping.<br>
<br>
You can also turn on the notify option instead of the skip option. That <br>
gives you a choice every time you get to a commercial as to whether to <br>
skip it or not, also when you go backwards into a commercial it will not <br>
skip forward again, but give you the option.<br>
<br>
If you want to correct your skip list using mythfrontend, you need to <br>
use the Z key (LOADCOMMSKIP) to load the comm skip list into the cut <br>
list first. see <a href="https://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Editing_Recordings" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Editing_Recordings</a>.<br>
<br>
Note that is there is a cut list and a comm skip list it will use the <br>
cut list and ignore the comm skip list. This is why you need to load the <br>
comm skip list into the cut list.<br>
<br>
Is it now working on V32 ? Others have it working.<br>
<br>
Peter<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Peter,</div><div><br></div><div>Using mythfrontend on a PC I used 'E' and then 'M' to load the skiplist and then I edited the recording to fix all the commercials correctly.</div><div><br></div><div>I then used mythutil to get the cutlist and also to setskiplist with what getcutlist returned.</div><div><br></div><div>Now leanfront v379 skips correctly with one minor issue. On the 2nd commercial, the screen showed the very first frame of the recording with the spinning blue circle/ring in the middle of the screen for 10-15 seconds and then the playback continued as expected. It did the same thing at the 3rd commercial skip.</div><div><br></div><div>Jim A</div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>I unchecked the setting to Use MythTV Seek Table and the delay is gone. Again, this is using the file I edited the commercials and then setskiplist to the cutlist values.</div><div><br></div><div>I also noticed that at the end of the program after the credits I usually add a "Cut to End". Leanfront doesn't seem to process that correctly. It continues to play.</div><div><br></div><div>Jim A</div><div><br></div></div></div>