[mythtv-users] Z key (commercial skip) behavior in 0.14

[Chris Pinkham]

> I hope I haven't missed an explanation of this.  There was some discussion
> in http://www.gossamer-threads.com/perl/mailarc/gforum.cgi?post=3D105479;sea
> rch_string=3Dcommercial%20skip%20Z;guest=3D2231699&t=3Dsearch_engine#105479
> but no resolution as to whether this was an intended change.

Qutoing myself from the link you just posted:

>> This feature was disabled by default since it's nowhere near as accurate as
>> the post-record flagging process. If you want to reenable it, go into
>> setup in mythfrontend and turn on the "Skip Unflagged Commercials"
>> setting. 

Yes, it was intended, it was "disabled by default."


> With Commercial Skip set to Notify, the old behavior upon hitting Z was to
> bring up the edit bar.  Hitting Z again, either immediately or after
> correcting the cut points would skip the commercial.  I think (not 
> certain) that Esc would return to where you were.  This seemed logical.
> 
> In 0.14, hitting skip again results in "Skipping 0 seconds" and a return to
> watching the commercial.  Hitting Esc results in the commercial being
> skipped.
> 
> Was this an intended change?

I don't know what you're talking about here.  With Skip set to notify, a box
will pop up whenever a commercial start marker is encountered.  This has
nothing to do with the unflagged commercials or this thread.  When the box
pops up, you can ignore it and nothing will happen or you can hit Z if you
want and skip the commercial(s).  ESC just makes the box go away quicker.
This functionality has not changed.  The change in 0.14 only had to do with
disabling skipping commercials before they have been flagged because the
real-time commercial detection isn't as good as the commercial flagging
thread so a lot of people don't even want to try to skip if commercials
haven't been flagged yet.

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Chris