[mythtv-users] Re: Developers, feature request for commercial skip toggle

[John P. Poet]

On Mon, 29 Dec 2003,  James L. Paul wrote:

> I understand what you mean. Here's what I do: I have commecial flagging turned
> on, but automatic skipping turned off. When I'm watching a recording and a
> commercial begins I press the button to skip to the next commercial cut and
> note the number of seconds it skipped in the OSD popup. If it's a reasonable
> number of seconds (usually between 180 and 300) then I'm confident that it
> didn't skip a whole program segment. If it obviously skipped too far I simply
> skip back a couple breaks and use the normal jump key instead.


The automatic commerical skipping on my ReplayTVs handle this very well.
They show the first and last 2 seconds of each commercial block.  That is
enough to actually show you that a commerical block has been entered, and
enough to show that it did not skip too far.

John