[mythtv-users] commercial skipping recorded shows

[Craig Longman]

Isaac Richards wrote:

>On Friday 09 May 2003 01:54 am, Craig Longman wrote:
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>>i'd like some help confirming/refuting one of the problems i'm seeing
>>with mythtv.  when i record a show in the background and watch it later,
>>the commercial skipping works quite nicely and is very fast.  however,
>>if i've watched the show 'live' while its being recorded, then the
>>commercial skip sucks, taking 10s of seconds to skip through minutes of
>>video.  at least, i'm getting reasonably confident that watching it live
>>causes the commercial skipping to suck, but i'd like someone else to get
>>similar results before i presume thats the issue.
>>
>>anyone else notice this?
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>With hardware encoding, it can't pre-process the video and look for 
>commercials while it records.  So in live tv mode, it has to decode every 
>frame when you tell it to skip the commercial.  Quite naturally, this takes a 
>bit of time, as you've seen.
>
so the answer (right  now at least) is if you hope to be able to skip 
around a recorded show with any reasonable speed, then don't watch it 
while its recording?  is this also true if i come in after its started 
and watch the show 10 seconds behind 'live', will the commecial skipping 
work on recorded the file then?

please note, i'm not talking about skipping around commercials in live 
tv, or while watching almost live tv.  i'm taking about watching a show 
as it is being recorded (via a schedule).  then going back to 'play 
recordings' and watching it again, not live.  however, shows that i 
haven't watched while recording skip quite quickly.

this isn't (as i tried to point out in the original post) the actual 
'live-tv' skipping i'm talking about.  i'm not sure if that makes a 
difference, but your post issac seems to be referring to the actual 
live-tv mode.

cheers,

    CraigL->Thx();