[mythtv-users] Commercial Blocker?

[Grant Edwards]

On Thu, Apr 29, 2004 at 10:28:28PM +0100, David wrote:
> Grant Edwards wrote:

> >I find the "skip 30 seconds" button works well enough that I
> >haven't ever looked into the commercial detector option.
>
> doesn't work too well in the UK (OK - it's useless!)

Why doesn't it work?

> but I find pressing "4" then skip forward usually skips the
> ads perfectly A commercial break now intrerrupts viewing for
> at most 5-10 seconds.
> 
> It's *so* cool!

I've noticed that there are a couple locally scheduled shows
where the commercial breaks aren't multples of 30 seconds (e.g
the break will be 4:15 long, so I have to hit the skip-30
button 9 times and then the back-5 button a few times).

-- 
Grant Edwards
grante at visi.com