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

[Gregorio Gervasio, Jr.]

>>>>> James L Paul writes:

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

        In version 0.13, there is a slightly better method.  There are
three choices for handling commercial breaks when they're detected
during playback (see the Playback options in TV Settings):

- do not skip
- skip automatically
- notify, but do not skip

The last one brings up an OSD that tells you the length of the
commercial break.  If it looks reasonable, hit 'Z'.  If it looks too
long, just go forward manually.  (I think I made a trivial source edit
to shorten the notification message string so that it would fit in the
"defaultosd" theme progress bar.)
-- 
Gregorio Gervasio, Jr.