[mythtv-users] Can I skip comercials while recording?

[steve at nexusuk.org]

On Sun, 4 Jan 2004, stan wrote:

> The Z key is great for Tivo Like skipping of comercials, but given that we
> can detect them, can we just not record them?

Scene change detection is done as a postprocess step.  And in any case 
it's nowhere near reliable enough to stop the recording completely - if 
you skip a commercial and it skips too far you can rewind, but if that was 
never recorded then you've lost half the show.

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