[mythtv] [mythtv-commits] Ticket #4688: Cannot skip backward through commercials
Chris Pinkham
cpinkham at bc2va.org
Mon Feb 18 05:32:29 UTC 2008
* On Sun Feb 17, 2008 at 02:28:27PM -0000, MythTV wrote:
> #4688: Cannot skip backward through commercials
> ----------------------------------------------+-----------------------------
> Reporter: Ron Frazier <ron at ronfrazier.net> | Owner: ijr
> Type: defect | Status: new
> Priority: minor | Milestone: unknown
> Component: mythtv | Version: unknown
> Severity: medium | Mlocked: 0
> ----------------------------------------------+-----------------------------
> Myth does not seem to allow you skip backward through commercials when a
> custlist is loaded.
>
> Example: Say I have a cutlist loaded where a commercial starts at 10:05
> and end at 12:35. While playing back, myth will jump through that
> commercial. If I then press the number 5 and then the skip back button, I
> would expect myth to jump back 5 minutes. If I did this at 12:40, I would
> expect it to jump to 7:40. However, it only jumps back to 10:05, and then
> immediate sees there is a commercial, and jumps right to 12:35 again.
>
> There are only 2 ways to get it to skip back before the commercial.
> 1) Unload the cutlist, skip back, and then reload the cutlist.
> 2) If you jump back far enough so that it jumps past the current
> commercial AND the commercial prior to it, it will then exhibit the same
> type of bug but this time with respect to that prior commercial (ie: it
> will jump to the beginning of the prior commercial, see that it has
> reached a commercial, and immediately skip to the end of that commercial).
It sounds like you have Auto Commercial Skip turned on as well. I took a
look through the code and we reset the cutlist iterator every time we
seek in the recording, so I think your jump is because you have Auto
Commercial Skip turned On. Try turning it off and see what happens.
--
Chris
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